Thank you, that did it. I don't know why I didn't think to escape the \ with \\.
On Jan 11, 2:18 pm, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-01-11, Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I want to run an external program using os.system() but I want to > > include a variable in the middle of the command line. > > > An example of the type of thing I want to be able to do: > > pathname = os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]) > > os.system('cscript /nologo ' + pathname + '\test.vbs')Use / instead of \, > > or \\ instead of \. > > -- > Neil Cerutti > Ushers will eat latecomers. --Church Bulletin Blooper -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list