command line path

[Lee Harr]

On 2005-09-05, mclaugb <mclaugb at nospam.gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to pass the name of several files to a python script as command 
> line arguments.  When i type in
>
>
> python ImportFiles_test.py C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 
> 7.1\project\calibration\FREQUENCY_
> 13.CSV
>
> The following error results:
>
> C:\Program Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\Documents and Settings\bm304.BRYANPC\My 
> Documents\Python\ImportFiles_test.py", line 10, in ?
>     input = open(file1, 'rb');
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Program'
>
> 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?
>


Try quotes ...

python "ImportFiles_test.py C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 7.1\project\calibration\FREQUENCY_13.CSV"