Command line argument issue space issue

[mg24]

Hi Team,

I am running this script via command line it is working.
python test.py sql_Table1 "\\IND200300400.XXX.XXXX.XXX\Recon Project\output1"

But below code when I try to run multiple py files from single py , code is not working.
it is because of space issue in output folder path ----> "Recon Project"

it is considering Seperate argument. but its single argument of output folder path.
"\\IND200300400.XXX.XXXX.XXX\Recon"
"Project\output1"

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from pathlib import Path import sys this_dir = Path(__file__).parent     for args in [     "test.py sql_Table1 \\IND200300400.XXX.XXXX.XXX\Recon Project\output1",     "test.py sql_Table2 \\IND200300400.XXX.XXXX.XXX\Recon Project\output2",     "test.py sql_Table3 \\IND200300400.XXX.XXXX.XXX\Recon Project\output3"]:     args = args.split()     filename = this_dir/args[0]     args[0] = str(filename)     sys.argv[:] = args     namespace = {'__name__': '__main__'}     exec(filename.read_text(), namespace)

[wavic]

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[mg24]

Hi Team,

its a typo error. its easy to fix.

Actual error is command line argument because of space issue.


Thanks
mg

[deanhystad]

Modify args so it works.

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for args in [     ["test.py", "sql_Table1", "\\IND200300400.XXX.XXXX.XXX\Recon Project\output1"],     ["test.py", "sql_Table2", "\\IND200300400.XXX.XXXX.XXX\Recon Project\output2"],     ["test.py", "sql_Table3", "\\IND200300400.XXX.XXXX.XXX\Recon Project\output3"]]:

or maybe it should be like this:

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for args in [     'test.py sql_Table1 "\\IND200300400.XXX.XXXX.XXX\Recon Project\output1"',     'test.py sql_Table2 "\\IND200300400.XXX.XXXX.XXX\Recon Project\output2"',     'test.py sql_Table3 "\\IND200300400.XXX.XXXX.XXX\Recon Project\output3"']:

[mg24]

Hi Deanhystad,

I tried above things with single quote, double, and triple quote also no luck.
if there is space in folder path I face issue, last argument. [Recon Project]

I got one more solution from another python. trying to fix.

I am not understanding this line.
A simpler way to accomplish the same thing is to just export a function that takes the filename as an argument and call that function rather than use the exec() thing you are using. Y


A few things are going on here:
Your shell command line is using double quotes around the filename. But your stored command lines are not.
.split() splits by whitespace and doesn’t know anything about quotes.
The built-in shlex.split() will do the Right Thing for you if you use it instead of str.split().
A simpler way to accomplish the same thing is to just export a function that takes the filename as an argument and call that function rather than use the exec() thing you are using.
Reference:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/shlex.html

[Yoriz]

Try it with raw strings by adding an r at the front of each string because the escape character \ might be giving problems

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... for args in [     r"test.py sql_Table1 \\IND200300400.XXX.XXXX.XXX\Recon Project\output1",     r"test.py sql_Table2 \\IND200300400.XXX.XXXX.XXX\Recon Project\output2",     r"test.py sql_Table3 \\IND200300400.XXX.XXXX.XXX\Recon Project\output3"]: ...

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Maybe you need to set maxsplit to 2 so the space in Recon Project is ignored

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... args = args.split(maxsplit=2) ...