[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This comes up from time to time. The brain damage is all Windows', not > Python's. Here's one thread which seems to suggest a bizarre doubling > of the initial quote of the commandline. > > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/89d94656ea393d5b/ef40a65017848671
I do this: # remove spaces from ends of filenames. for root, dirs, files in os.walk('programs'): for fname in files: new_fname = fname.strip() if new_fname != fname: new_path = os.path.join(root,new_fname) old_path = os.path.join(root,fname) os.renames(old_path,new_path) # remove spaces from middle of filenames. for root, dirs, files in os.walk('programs'): for f in files: new_f = string.replace(f, ' ' , '-') new_path = os.path.join(root,new_f) old_path = os.path.join(root,f) os.renames(old_path,new_path) # install files. for root, dirs, files in os.walk('programs'): installable = ['.exe', '.msi', '.EXE', '.MSI'] for f in files: ext = os.path.splitext(f) if ext[1] in installable: print f install = os.system(os.path.join(root,f)) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list