[python-win32] Quoting Blanks in Command Line

[Tim Golden]

Andreas Maurer>

> I've a little script which gets a list of files from
> the command line.

> myscript.py -f file1,file2,"file3 with blank"
> gives
> ['-f,'file1,file2,"file3','with','blanks"']
> and not
> ['-f,'file1,file2,"file3 with blanks"']

Simplest suggestion is to use:

myscript.py -f file1 file2 "file3 with blank"

which will give:

C:\temp>temp.py file1 file2 "file3 with space"
['file1', 'file2', 'file3 with space']

or, if you must:

C:\temp>python
Python 2.2.2 (#37, Oct 14 2002, 17:02:34) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> argv = ['-f', 'file1,file2,"file3 with space"']
>>> [s.split (",") for s in argv]
[['-f'], ['file1', 'file2', '"file3 with space"']]
>>>

depending on what you're after.

TJG

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