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

Replace this line:

os.system("mkdir " + line.strip())

with

os.system("mkdir '{0}'".format(line.strip()))

By quoting the argument to mkdir you tell it to create a single directory that has a name containing whitespace. If the quotes are omitted, mkdir creates multiple directories instead.