Question

I am having a problem with a bit of code on one windows machine but not all windows machines. i have the following code:

path = 'F:/dir/' os.system(path[0:2] + ' && cd ' + path + ' && git init') 

On all but one of my windows systems it runs fine but on a windows 2003 server it gives a ‘directory not found’ error but if i run the same command flat from the command prompt than it works.

I’m sorry if my question comes off as vague but I’m totally stumped

Answer 1

os.path contains many usefull path manipulation functions. Probably just handling the path cleanly will resolve your problem.

>>> import os >>> >>> >>> path = 'F:/dir/' >>> >>> clean_path = os.path.normpath(path) >>> clean_path 'F:\\dir' >>> drive, directory = os.path.splitdrive(clean_path) >>> drive 'F:' >>> directory '\\dir' 

Also, you might want to look into using the subprocess module, it gives you more control over processes.

Replacing Older Functions with the subprocess Module