[New-bugs-announce] [issue1772] popen fails when there are two or more pathnames/parameters with spaces

[Stephan Hoermann]

New submission from Stephan Hoermann:

If commands similar to this (including all quotation 
marks) '"C:\\Program Files\\test.bat" blah "C:\\Data Files\\test2.txt"' 
are executed using popen, then the following is returned from 
stderr "'C:\\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external 
command,\noperable program or batch file.\n". No use of quotation has 
been able to fix this. As soon as there is more than one pair of 
quotations inside the command string popen will not handle the command 
correctly.

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components: Library (Lib), Windows
messages: 59580
nosy: shoermann
severity: major
status: open
title: popen fails when there are two or more pathnames/parameters with spaces
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.4, Python 2.5

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