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

According to MS: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/17w5ykft(v=vs.85).aspx

Backslashes are interpreted literally, unless they immediately precede a double quotation mark.

I'm wondwring if Python on Windows uses this method: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb776391(v=vs.85).aspx

To parse the command line to create sys.argv. In theory it should do it.