Re: subprocess chokes on spaces in path

2007-11-07 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On Nov 6, 2:48 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Use a list of arguments [antiword, word_doc] and let subprocess handle the > spaces the right way. > Got it working. Thank you both. p = subprocess.Popen([antiword, word_doc], stdout=subprocess.PIPE) doc_text = p.stdout.read()

Re: subprocess chokes on spaces in path

2007-11-06 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:32:33 -0300, BartlebyScrivener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Using bash on Debian Etch. > > If word_doc = sys.argv[1] and it's a file name like My\ Word.doc this > function reads My and Word as two separate files unless the second > '%s' is quoted. Took me a lot of tria

Re: subprocess chokes on spaces in path

2007-11-06 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* BartlebyScrivener (Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:32:33 -) > Using bash on Debian Etch. > > If word_doc = sys.argv[1] and it's a file name like My\ Word.doc this > function reads My and Word as two separate files unless the second > '%s' is quoted. Took me a lot of trial and error to discover. Is this