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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.
Jas.
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.
Jas.
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Originally Posted by JasonHippy 
Hope that solves your problem.
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This problem has been around for a long time and not just with Python:
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Originally Posted by Ene Uran
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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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Originally Posted by leegeorg07
just thinking... wouldnt it have made more sense to just change "Program files" to "Program_files" or something similar?
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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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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