os.popen3 with windows; help?

[Michele Petrazzo]

Russell E. Owen wrote:
  > So I tried being specific:
> os.popen3("C:\\Program Files\\ds9\\ds9")
> This also fails and the program that is not found is "C:\Program", 
> suggesting that the space in "Program Files" is causing the problem. The 
> following failed in exactly the same way:
> os.popen3("C:\\Program\ Files\\ds9\\ds9")
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 

The problem is that there are spaces into the path. Try to user 
os.popen3('"C:\\Program\ Files\\ds9\\ds9"').
The better choice is:

path_complete = os.path.join('c:\\', 'Program Files', 'ds', 'ds9')
os.popen3('"'+ path_complete +'"' )

It work for me.

Michele