I replace the Popen(command) with Popen(list_of_args) and this
(according to some) should fix the escaping problem. Needs testing.
Massimo
On Jan 30, 4:50 pm, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Jan 30, 2010, at 1:40 PM, mdipierro wrote:
>
> > The problem is when paths contain spaces.
>
> > I thought even in windows in this case one should esacpe spaces with
> > '\ ' and use either \\ ('\\\\' in python) or / ('/') to separate
> > folders. For example:
>
> > 'C:/windows/Documents\ and\ Settings/'
>
> > or
>
> > 'C:\\windows\\Documents\ and\ Settings\\'
>
> > Am I wrong?
>
> I think so, but I'm no expert on the subject.
>
> Consider that if 'c:\\abc' makes Windows see 'c:\abc', then escaping the
> space isn't going to have any effect.
>
> You can quote a command on the command line, so possibly something like:
>
> '"C:\\windows\\Documents and Settings\\"'
>
> might work. Forward slashes are permitted in system calls, but IIRC not on
> the command line, where (at least back in the DOS days) they denoted command
> options (equivalent to - in Unix). I'd expect cron entries to be more like
> command-line or batch-file content.
>
> But as I say, I'm no expert.
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