popen problem with spaces in directory-ARRGHHHH!

[Steve Holden]

You might want to take a look at the win32/Scripts/VersionStamp directory
for some ideas about interacting with Visual SourceSafe.

regards
 Steve
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"Steve Canfield" <stevecanfield at my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> Okay.  I'm a little frustrated.
>
> Earlier, I wrote in message
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> > If I open up a command prompt and type in the following:
> > C:\>"e:\visual studio\ss.exe" status "$/My Project"
> > I get back a bunch of text showing which files are checked out.
> >
> > If I open a Python interpreter and type:
> > >>> import os
> > >>> os.popen(r'"e:\visual studio\ss.exe" status "$/My
> > Project"').readlines()
> > []
> > I get an empty list.
>
> Since I first posted this I have tried a few more things.  The FAQ
> mentions bugs in popen and suggests win32pipe.popen.  I tried it and
> it seems to behave exactly like os.popen.
>
> One thing that didn't work (and I don't want to have to do this) is
> using the short (8.3) version of the directory names:
> >>> import os
> >>> os.popen(r'e:\visual~1\ss.exe status "$/My Project"').readlines()
> ['$/My Project:\n', 'file1.cpp      Steve    etc...
>
> Is this a bug in os.popen, win32pipe.popen, or (more likely) am I
> missing something really obvious here?
>
> Please help!  I really don't want to have to be restricted to short
> file names.
>
> Thanks,
> steve