[Tutor] Os.system on winXP system having trouble with spaces indirectory names (original) (raw)

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

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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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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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