Jean-Paul Calderone <exar...@divmod.com> added the comment: The backslash escaping has nothing to do with os.environ. It's the way any string with a backslash in it is displayed in the interactive interpreter (it's the way str.__repr__ works). Performing any escaping on a string to make it usable in a command line is a task which is inappropriate as a feature of os.environ. The contents of os.environ are just strings. If you want to use them in a command line, you need to escape them appropriately. Notice that in addition to escaping the space, you may also sometimes need to escape a backslash (not in this case on Windows, though, since a single \ is allowed here). The escaping of the \ in this example is *only* in the *display* of the variable - there is only one \ in the string itself.
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