metaperl wrote: > I downloaded a file which has a space in the filename. I want to run a > shell unzip on it, but it fails in my current code: > > syscmd = "cd %s ; unzip %s" % (self.storage.input, > file.basename()) > os.system(syscmd) > > because no escaping was done. > > Is there a more principled way to construct a shell command and execute > it so that all necessary characters are escaped?
use subprocess.list2cmdline to create the command string (or better, subprocess.call). see this FAQ entry for sample code: http://effbot.org/pyfaq/why-can-t-raw-strings-r-strings-end-with-a-backslash.htm </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
