Parsing Command line arguments in python which has spaces

Question

I am invoking the script from ant . I am getting it as a single string from the caller but python is strangely treating it as two individual strings.I have script that reads

Answer 1

You pass the folder name wrapped in quotes:

test.py "D:\test\File Name"

sys.argv[1] will contain the folder path, spaces included.

If for some reason you cannot quote the folder name, you will need to use the ctypes module and use the Win32 API's GetCommandLine function. Here's a functional example.