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Re: opening an exe from Program Files directory in windows

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Sep 29th, 2009

I've just done a bit of digging around on python.org and found this:
http://bugs.python.org/issue1524

Looks like I'm not the first person to come up with this workaround....See the post made by daniel.weyh on the 25th June 2008.

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Re: opening an exe from Program Files directory in windows

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Hope that solves your problem.

Bingo!!! It sure did.. Thanks a lot Jason

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Re: opening an exe from Program Files directory in windows

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This problem has been around for a long time and not just with Python:

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# the "Microsoft kludge", quoting a string within a string fixes the 
# space-in-folder-name problem, tells the OS to use the whole string
# including spaces as a single command
# (make sure filename does not contain any spaces!)
os.system('"C:/Program Files/IrfanView/i_view32.exe" ' + filename)
# the "Microsoft kludge", quoting a string within a string fixes the 
# space-in-folder-name problem, tells the OS to use the whole string
# including spaces as a single command
# (make sure filename does not contain any spaces!)
os.system('"C:/Program Files/IrfanView/i_view32.exe" ' + filename)

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Re: opening an exe from Program Files directory in windows

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os.system('"C:/Program Files/IrfanView/i_view32.exe" ' + filename)
os.system('"C:/Program Files/IrfanView/i_view32.exe" ' + filename)

Dammit...I thought I'd tried that combination of string in string earlier..... Obviously that was one permutation I missed!

Hang on....Looking back at my failed scripts from when I was playing around, I had the " and the ' the wrong way around! Damn these fat drummer fingers! grrr! heh heh!

Thanks for that Ene! Yes that's far better than my solution!

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This is often referred to as the little-known "Microsoft kludge"

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just thinking... wouldnt it have made more sense to just change "Program files" to "Program_files" or something similar?

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just thinking... wouldnt it have made more sense to just change "Program files" to "Program_files" or something similar?

Not really, because in MS Windows the 'Program Files' folder is the system default folder for programs to be installed in (and there are usually a lot of programs installed there!).

Simply renaming the 'Program Files' folder to 'Program_Files' would cause most (if not all) of your programs to either malfunction, or not work at all when you tried to run them.
The OS probably wouldn't take it too well either!

Plus any shortcuts you have for any programs in the 'Program Files' folder will also stop working...(e.g. desktop shortcuts and start menu links)

So in this case...No! Changing the folder name would definitely not be the best option. Ene's line of code is by far the best solution to the problem!

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Something only Microsoft could dream up. I understand that in the European version of Windows the space is avoided. The kludge itself is from a programmer within Microsoft.

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nope, in the eu version it still has the space... at least for me

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Re: opening an exe from Program Files directory in windows

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Sep 29th, 2009

Its actually not as tough as people are making it out to be, if you have a space you need to put ' ' or " " around it to clarify that it has a space, maybe try this:

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

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