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Mon Jul 31 07:14:36 CEST 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-July/067855.html

At 12:58 AM -0400 7/31/06, Tony Nelson wrote:
>At 12:39 AM -0400 7/31/06, Tony Nelson wrote:
>
>>    popen('"E:\Documents and Settings\Tony Nelson\My
>>Documents\Python\pydev\trunk\PCBuild\python.exe" -c "import
>>sys;sys.version_info"')
>
>Ehh, I must admit that I retyped that.  Obviously what I typed would not
>work, but what I used was:
>
>    python = '"' + sys.executable + '"'
>    popen(python + ' -c "import sys;sys.version_info"'
>
>So there wasn't a problem with backslashes.  I've also been using raw
>strings.  And, as I said, the file objects looked OK, with backslashes
>where they should be.  Sorry for the mistyping.

OK, I recognize the bug now.  It's that quote parsing bug in MSWindows
(which I can find again if you want) which can be worked around by using an
extra quote at the front (and maybe also the back):

    popen('""E:\Documents ...

Not really a bug in Python at all.
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