Thank you for your response. The back slashes work! It's a bit annoying; but I have Microsoft to thank for that.
On 8/21/07, Gary Herron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Robert Dailey wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Note: I'm using Python on Windows > > > > I have an application that allows a user to submit a password as a > > command line parameter. The password of choice may contain any > > characters the user wishes, including quotes. If I do the following: > > > > python password.py "9999"MyPassword > > > > The resulting output when I print this inside the script is: > > > > 9999MyPassword > > > > Notice how the quotations have been stripped. Is it DOS doing this, or > > Python? Is there a way I can fix it? > > > > Thanks. > > Not Python. It never even sees those quotes. Whatever system you are > using for entering the text is stripping them. Is it the command prompt > (cmd.exe)? If so then you can escape the quote by preceding it with a > backslash. (This is true of the DOS prompt and all the unix shells, and > their windows ports, that I know about.) > > Gary Herron > >
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