By mapping network drives in windows I can get past these issues with path names.
Thanks, David "Tim Golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > David S wrote: >> Gets me further but still seems to be issue with space after 'Program' as >> code tries to run 'C:\Program'. Don't understand what is going on here... > > Slight apologies as I haven't followed this thread closely, but using the > Acrobat Reader executable, which is, I think, good enough for the > purposes of illustration: > > <code> > import os > import subprocess > > filename = r"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 8.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" > doc = r"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 8.0\Resource\ENUtxt.pdf" > > print os.path.isfile (filename) > > os.system (filename + " " + doc) > > os.system ('"%s" "%s"' % (filename, doc)) > > subprocess.call ([filename, doc]) > > </code> > > os.path.isfile succeeds > os.system (filename) fails as your code does > os.system ('"%s"' ...) fails even though both strings are requoted > subprocess.call (filename) succeeds > > The latter, at least, is because the subprocess module > has some special-case handling for exactly this situation > on MS Windows, while os.system doesn't. > > Now, ultimately, I don't know if this really helps your > exact situation but it least it should be clear what will > and what won't work. Conclusion: use subprocess.call if > you can. > > TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
