* BartlebyScrivener (Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:32:33 -0000) > Using bash on Debian Etch. > > If word_doc = sys.argv[1] and it's a file name like My\ Word.doc this > function reads My and Word as two separate files unless the second > '%s' is quoted. Took me a lot of trial and error to discover. Is this > the most elegant way to do it? I was using popen originally, then saw > some threads suggesting subprocess cured the spaces in path problem. > > def get_MSWordDoc_text(word_doc): > """Harvests text from an MSWord doc using antiword.""" > antiword = "/usr/bin/antiword" > > # Note the extra single quotes around the second '%s' > # without these quotes, bash chokes on paths with spaces in them > # says can't open My ; can't open Word
If bash has problems with spaces then the obvious thing to do is not to use bash, right?! Thorsten -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
