Le Tue, 17 May 2005 13:50:08 -0400, rbt a écrit : > Is it more appropriate to use os.popen or os.system on a windows XP > client?
Nope. use the subprocess module :-) Microsoft had the great idea to embed white space inside a lot of directories (compare C:\Program Files\ to /usr/bin ) which means that you must find the right way to quote the command line string of os.system() and this quoting is very tricky and under-documented. A nightmare to thousands of developers which has a cost of millions of dollars :-( Exercice for the reader : write a windows application which can only be invoked from the command line (or from another program) not by clicking on a cute icon. Extra bonus points if the path to this executable contain (after Program Files) a company name with some characters hard to type on some keyboards (or with some locales), if the executable name has also difficult to type characters and if the case is checked (windows file system is case preserving). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
