[Tutor] Os.system on winXP system having trouble with spaces indirectory names

Christian Wyglendowski Christian.Wyglendowski at greenville.edu
Fri Jul 16 20:07:53 CEST 2004


Quoting your path should take care of it:

os.system('start "C:\\Documents and
Settings\\Smith_B2\\Desktop\\page.html"')

Christian
http://www.dowski.com
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	From: tutor-bounces at python.org [mailto:tutor-bounces at python.org]
On Behalf Of Barrett Smith
	Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 1:31 PM
	To: 'tutor at python.org'
	Subject: [Tutor] Os.system on winXP system having trouble with
spaces indirectory names
	
	

	I'm having trouble with a using os.system on a windowsXP
machine.  

	Running: 
	os.system('start C:\\Documents and
Settings\\Smith_B2\\Desktop\\page.html') 

	Yields and error saying 'Windows cannot find C:\Documents.....' 

	This same problem means I can't access things in the 'Program
Files' directory and so forth.  Any ideas of work-arounds (other than
moving to non-space included directories)?

	Thanks, 
	Barrett 



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