A.T.Hofkamp wrote: > Escape the space to prevent the shell from interpreting it as a word > seperator. This of course also holds for all other shell meta characters, > such as * [ ] \ > < & and a few others I probably have forgotten.
If the command was useful (unlike cd), it might be better to use subprocess to launch it so that you don't need the escaping: subprocess.call(['ls', '8000 dir']) This avoids using the shell. -- Jeremy Sanders http://www.jeremysanders.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
