os.system to invoke an exe which lies in a dir whose name contains whitespace

Question

My code is simply as follows:

file = \'C:\\\\Exe\\\\First Version\\\\filename.exe\'
os.system(file)

When I run this program, a Windows erro

Answer 1

I used this:

import subprocess, shlex
mycmd='"C:\\Program Files\\7-Zip\\7z" x "D:\\my archive.7z" -o"D:\\extract folder" -aou'
subprocess.run(shlex.split(mycmd))