Working with paths with spaces in NT
Mats Wichmann
xyzmats at laplaza.org
Wed Jun 13 13:13:44 EDT 2001
Tim wrote:
>> If you look at your output very carefully, you'll discover this has
nothing
>> to do with spaces. After all, you chdir'ed to
>>
>> A Gentle Introduction to Ted Nelson's ZigZag Structure_files
>>
>> just fine. If that's not enough of a hint, try this starting in
some deep
>> directory tree that doesn't have any spacey names.
>>
>> don't-use-relative-paths-unless-you're-sure-you-know-where-you-
>> are-ly y'rs - tim
And Dave replied:
>Thank you Tim for the warm and friendly help without a hint of
>condescension - i'm sure it really encourages people new to python
> and even more those new to programming.
I missed what it was raised your hackles in Tim's comment.
He pointed out that it wasn't a space problem since you've been in a
directory with spaces already. The more obscure reference is that you
never came out of that directory before trying to go on to the next
one.
You need an os.chdir('..') somewhere.
-- mats
Mats Wichmann
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