is perl better?

[Terry Reedy]

"jon c" <jon_couchman at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Law11-F77MdOkTRhlQn0002b71f at hotmail.com...
> well the cammand is
>
> java -hotspot -showversion ...... -classpath loads of entries
> application-name
>
> the total string is 6809 characters long.
>
> I do not know the allowed character length (I am using windows 2000)
>
> but perl just runs the command fine, whereas python results in
>
> The following character string is too long:

Is that coming from Windows or Python?  If the latter, give us the full
exception message, which will say from where in Python.  Also, try putting
the long string in a .bat file and running the .bat file by itself and then
from Python.

Terry J. Reedy