Sean Reifschneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I would agree with Georg that there isn't anything we can do about this. I had someone try from the Windows XP command shell and: "dir" "/w" reports that it can't run the combined command, where: dir /w works just fine.
My conclusions are: This is a bug in the Windows shell (which os.system hands the command to). There is a work-around using "call" as pointed out by Jean-François The subprocess module is a better match for this, as you pass a tuple to make quoting unnecessary. According to the os module documentation, using subprocess is recommended in preference to using os.system(). ---------- nosy: +jafo priority: -> normal resolution: -> wont fix status: open -> closed type: crash -> behavior __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1524> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
