Command line arguments??

[rantingrick]

I am currently having "fun" with command line arguments in a windows
environment. If i get a path that has spaces anywhere in it my script
gets the wrong arguments from sys.argv. You guy's probably know what i
am talking about. Heres and example.

'C:\\Python26\\Python.exe C:\\echo.py C:\\New Folder\\text.txt'

inside my script i get the following result from sys.argv

['C:\\Python26\\Python.exe', 'C:\\echo.py', 'C:\\New', 'Folder\
\text.txt']

So i've got a few options
  1. have people replace every space in all file paths system wide
(sucks)
  2. Create a custom parser, join the argv list, parse it...(maybe)
  3. please tell me there is an option 3? (hopefully)