<SOLVED>os.system needs a string in quotes

[Fred Barclay]

You should also use Subprocess it replace use of older os.system().

... and use it to call you srm command directly (ie, without a intermediate shell). Then each of your command parameters is a string in a list and you completely avoid the shell syntax issues.

Hmm... that would be nice but this is what I get when srm-ing /home/fred/Git/test (folder):

Error:
/home/fred/Git/test (folder)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/fred/.local/share/caja-python/extensions/caja-wipe.py", line 112, in wipe_file
    subprocess.call([cmd])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 522, in call
    return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 710, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1335, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Applicable code is this:

    def wipe_file(self, menu, file):
        for filename in filelist:
            path = pwd+"/"+filename
            path = str(path)
            if not os.access(path, os.W_OK):
                print("You do not have permission to wipe this file") # Debugging
                return
            # print(filelist) # Debugging
            # print(filename) # Debugging
            print(path) # Debugging
            cmd = "srm -rv "+path # -v is good for debugging
            subprocess.call([cmd])

If needed, the entire source code is on GitHub:
https://github.com/Fred-Barclay/Caja-Wipe
(Look in src/caja-wipe.py)

Thanks for all help so far!

EDIT: Python 3.4