On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 4:39 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: >> Since you have a space in the name, you'll need quotes: >> >> >> cd "c:\Beautiful Soup" > > > Not for Win 7, at least > > C:\Users\Terry>cd \program files > > C:\Program Files>
Huh, good to know. Unfortunately, Windows leaves command-line parsing completely up to the individual command/application, so some will need quotes, some won't, and some will actually do very different things if you put an argument in quotes (look at START and FIND). There is a broad convention that spaces in file names get protected with quotes, though (for instance, tab completion will put quotes around them), so it's not complete chaos. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list