Steve M wrote: > I'm trying to invoke a Java command-line program from my Python program > on Windows XP. I cannot get the paths in one of the arguments to work > right. > > The instructions for the program describe the following for the > command-line arguments: > > java -jar sforcedataloader.jar -Dsalesforce.config.dir=CONFIG_DIRECTORY > > They also give an example: > > java -Dsalesforce.config.dir=c:\config -jar sforcedataloader.jar > > If I type the example above at the cmd.exe command line the thing works > (assuming I have the config file in c:\config). What doesn't work is > these two lines: > > cmd = r'java -jar sforcedataloader.jar -Dc:\config' > os.system(cmd)
If you write java -jar x.jar -Dwhatever=x then -Dwhatever=x is passed as an argument to the main method of the main class in x.jar. If you write java -Dwhatever=x -jar x.jar then -Dwhatever=x is interpreted by java and put into the system properties. Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
