Python reading whitespace-separated file lines as separate lines

Question

This is on Windows Server 2008 R2. I have a file of inputs, one input per line. Some of the inputs have spaces in them. I\'m trying to use the below simple code, but it separate

Answer 1

Without sample input it is hard to be sure, but it looks like you need to quote the directory creation.

for line in f:
    os.system("mkdir '%s'" % line.strip())

On Windows, the single quotes will cause undesirable effects, so using double quotes is probably necessary.

for line in f:
    os.system('mkdir "%s"' % line.strip())