On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 7:03 AM, loial <jldunn2...@gmail.com> wrote: > I need to execute an external shell script via subprocess on Linux. > > One of the parameters needs to be passed inside double quotes > > But the double quotes do not appear to be passed to the script > > I am using : > > myscript = '/home/john/myscript' > commandline = myscript + ' ' + '\"Hello\"' > > process = subprocess.Popen(commandline, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, > stderr=subprocess.PIPE) > output,err = process.communicate() > > > if I make the call from another shell script and escape the double quotes it > works fine, but not when I use python and subprocess. > > I have googled this but cannot find a solution...is there one?
Try it with 2 backslashes: commandline = myscript + ' ' + '\\"Hello\\"' -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
