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

One problem is that if the command is surrounded with quotes and doesn't have spaces, that could also confuse the shell.

So I do this:

if ' ' in raw_cmd:
    fmt = '"%s"'
else:
    fmt = '%s'

cmd = fmt % raw_cmd