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

Possibly stupid suggestion, but perhaps try the following, to remove subprocess + spaces from the equation:

import os
from subprocess Popen, PIPE

os.chdir(
    os.path.join("C:", "Program Files", "VMware", "VMware Server")
)

p = Popen(
    ["vmware-cmd.bat", target_vm, list_arg, list_arg2],
    stdout=PIPE
).communicate()[0]

It might also be worth trying..

p = Popen(
    [os.path.join("C:", "Program Files", "VMware", "VMware Server", "vmware-cmd.bat"), ...