[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This comes up from time to time. The brain damage is all Windows', > not Python's.
It's perfectly reasonable behavior, and it also applies to Linux. The shell uses spaces to separate arguments; how do you expect it to know that you want a space to be part of the program's name unless you escape it? > Here's one thread which seems to suggest a bizarre doubling of the > initial quote of the commandline. A better solution would be to use subprocess: <http://python.org/doc/current/lib/module-subprocess.html>. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list