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opening an exe from Program Files directory in windows

Sep 29th, 2009

Hi All,

I need to open a exe from python. For ex i used

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os.system("C:\Winamp\Winamp.exe")
import os
os.system("C:\Winamp\Winamp.exe")

but I need to open an exe from the "Program Files" directory. I get an error because of the space between "Program" and "Files".

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os.system("C:\Program Files\Winamp\Winamp.exe")
>>'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command.
import os
os.system("C:\Program Files\Winamp\Winamp.exe")
>>'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command.

Anybody has the solution. It must be simple but I am not able to get it

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Re: opening an exe from Program Files directory in windows

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Originally Posted by pysup

Hi All,
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import os
os.system("C:\Program Files\Winamp\Winamp.exe")
>>'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command.
import os os.system("C:\Program Files\Winamp\Winamp.exe") >>'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command.
Anybody has the solution. It must be simple but I am not able to get it

Shouldn't you be doing it like

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os.system("C:\\Program\ Files\\Winamp\\Winamp.exe")
import os
os.system("C:\\Program\ Files\\Winamp\\Winamp.exe")

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Re: opening an exe from Program Files directory in windows

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I tried

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os.system("C:\\Program\ Files\\Winamp\\Winamp.exe")
os.system("C:\\Program/ Files\\Winamp\\Winamp.exe")
os.system("C:\\Program\ Files\\Winamp\\Winamp.exe")
os.system("C:\\Program/ Files\\Winamp\\Winamp.exe")

I get the same error

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Re: opening an exe from Program Files directory in windows

Sep 29th, 2009

try:

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temp_var=r("C:\Program files\Winamp\Winamp.exe")
os.system(tempvar)
temp_var=r("C:\Program files\Winamp\Winamp.exe")
os.system(tempvar)

Im not sure if defining it as a raw variable would work but its worth a shot

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Re: opening an exe from Program Files directory in windows

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Maybe

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os.system("\"C:\Program Files\Winamp\Winamp.exe\"")
os.system("\"C:\Program Files\Winamp\Winamp.exe\"")

might be silly, but who knows...

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Re: opening an exe from Program Files directory in windows

Sep 29th, 2009

Thanks leegeorg and ryuslash.. I tried both ways but i still get the same error.

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Re: opening an exe from Program Files directory in windows

Sep 29th, 2009

It's not possible that you don't actually have Winamp in Program Files? You said that you tested with C:\Winamp\Winamp.exe which worked?

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Originally Posted by ryuslash

It's not possible that you don't actually have Winamp in Program Files? You said that you tested with C:\Winamp\Winamp.exe which worked?

Actually I just gave that as an example..

If it were not present then the error would be "The System cannot find the path specified"

but I get an error 'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command.

Maybe i should reinstall my program out of program files folder but i want to do it as a last resort

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Re: opening an exe from Program Files directory in windows

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Thought so

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Re: opening an exe from Program Files directory in windows

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It took a bit of playing around, but think I've found a workaround for this....

I noticed in the docs for os.system() (Yes I RTFM!) it mentions that the subprocess.call() should be used instead.
So I had a go with subprocess.call() but I soon ran into very similar problems, it still didn't like the spaces in the path.

After a bit of playing around and using a bit of lateral thinking I decided to try using subprocess.call() to call 'cmd.exe' passing it the path to a program in 'Program Files' as a parameter.

Now, I don't have winamp installed on my pc, so I decided to try and fire up Audacity using the following code:

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subprocess.call(r'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /C "C:\Program Files\Audacity\audacity.exe"')
import subprocess

subprocess.call(r'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /C "C:\Program Files\Audacity\audacity.exe"')

And you know what?? It bloody works!

After that, I decided to try using os.system in exactly the same way (use it to fire up cmd.exe with the path to Audacity as a parameter):

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os.system(r'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /C "C:\Program Files\Audacity\audacity.exe"')
import os

os.system(r'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /C "C:\Program Files\Audacity\audacity.exe"')

Guess what??
That worked too!

Woot woot!

You'll get a little cmd window that will pop-up alongside whatever program you fire up, but it will disappear when you close the program down again.

So, all you need to do is copy one of the bits of code posted above and then replace my path to Audacity with the path to your installation of Winamp!

Hope that solves your problem.
Cheers for now,
Jas.

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