My code is simply as follows:
file = 'C:\Exe\First Version\filename.exe' os.system(file)
When I run this program, a Windows error is raised: can't find the file specified.
I found out the problem has to with the whitespace in the middle of “First Version”. How could I find a way to circumvent the problem?
P.S.: what if the variable ‘file’ is being passed as an argument into another function?
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Answer
Putting quotes around the path will work:
file = 'C:\Exe\First Version\filename.exe' os.system('"' + file + '"')
but a better solution is to use the subprocess
module instead:
import subprocess file = 'C:\Exe\First Version\filename.exe' subprocess.call([file])