How to use subprocess when multiple arguments contain spaces?

Question

I\'m working on a wrapper script that will exercise a vmware executable, allowing for the automation of virtual machine startup/shutdown/register/deregister actions. I\'m t

Answer 1

'c:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

To get this message, you are either:

1. Using shell=True:

   vmrun_cmd = r"c:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Server\vmware-cmd.bat"
   subprocess.Popen(vmrun_cmd, shell=True)
   

2. Changing vmrun_cmd on other part of your code

3. Getting this error from something inside vmware-cmd.bat

Things to try:

• Open a python prompt, run the following command:

  subprocess.Popen([r"c:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Server\vmware-cmd.bat"])
  

If that works, then quoting issues are out of the question. If not, you've isolated the problem.