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

I believe that list2cmdline(), which is doing the processing of your list args, splits any string arg on whitespace unless the string contains double quotes. So I would expect

vmrun_cmd = r'"c:/Program Files/VMware/VMware Server/vmware-cmd.bat"'

to be what you want.

You'll also likely want to surround the other arguments (like target_vm) in double quotes on the assumption that they, too, each represent a distinct arg to present to the command line. Something like

r'"%s"' % target_vm

(for example) should suit.

See the list2cmdline documentation

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