command line path

Diez B. Roggisch deets at nospam.web.de
Mon Sep 5 11:33:30 EDT 2005


> 
> I debugged a little and what is happening is the space in "c:\Program Files" 
> and "...\National Instruments..\" is being parsed as separate arguments and 
> i only wish for them to be parsed as one.
> 
> How do I get pass a path string containing spaces?

Surround it with double quotes. This is no python issue, it's part of 
your shell. Under unix (or cygwin) , you could also use '\ ' to escape 
the single spaces.

Diez



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