how to proccess the blank in the path on linux

[Jeremy Sanders]

A.T.Hofkamp wrote:

> Escape the space to prevent the shell from interpreting it as a word
> seperator. This of course also holds for all other shell meta characters,
> such as * [ ] \ > < & and a few others I probably have forgotten.

If the command was useful (unlike cd), it might be better to use subprocess
to launch it so that you don't need the escaping:

subprocess.call(['ls', '8000 dir'])

This avoids using the shell.

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Jeremy Sanders
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