subprocess and & (ampersand)

[Ross Ridge]

Tim Golden  <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
>but this doesn't:
>
><c:/temp/firefox.bat>
>"c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" "%*"
></c:/temp/firefox.bat>
>
><code>
>import subprocess
>
>cmd = [
>r"c:\temp\firefox.bat",
>"http://local.goodtoread.org/search?word=tim&cached=0"
>]
>subprocess.Popen (cmd)
>
></code>

You need to use double quotes both in the .BAT file and in the string
you pass to subprocess.Popen().

					Ross Ridge

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