bug in os.system?

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Tue Oct 18 03:30:59 EDT 2005


wjzrules at gmail.com wrote:
> What happens when you try it without the single quotes?
>  result = os.system("pythonbugtest.exe" "test")
> 
That would be equivalent to

   result = os.system("pythonbugtest.exetest")

which almost certainly won't do anything useful.

regards
  Steve
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