[Tutor] list index out of range error

[D-Man]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:36:54PM -0700, VanL wrote:
| On Unix, you are right.  On Windows,  that doesn't work.  At least,
| I can't make it work.
| 
| -V-

You are right, Windows is horrible.  Example :  (the path does exist,
and works when building the project using ant (a make replacement for
java))

Python 2.0 (#8, Oct 16 2000, 17:27:58) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os
>>> os.system( "C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/VSS/win32" )
'C:/Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
1
>>> os.system( "C:/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Visual\ Studio/VSS/win32"
>>> )
'C:/Program\' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
1
>>> os.system( "C:/Program\\ Files/Microsoft\\ Visual\\
>>> Studio/VSS/win32" )
'C:/Program\' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
1
>>>


I think it is the windows shell that get's forked when os.system is
called that is choking on the windows path.

-D