Using subprocess.Popen (shell=True) with windows folders

Question

I\'m currently looking at Popen to automate the compression & storage of documents.

For the compression part, I thought of the following Python line:

Answer 1

In Windows you should use quotes for file or directory names (if you want to use spaces inside). In Python, you should escape quotes with \ symbol (if you are using strings inside " quotes). Like this:

"my name is \"Mark\"!"

Or just:

'my name is "Mark"!'

So this will work as expected:

subprocess.Popen("WinRAR.exe a -r \"c:\\03. Notes\\AllTexts\" *.txt", shell=True)

As well as:

subprocess.Popen('WinRAR.exe a -r "c:\\03. Notes\\AllTexts" *.txt', shell=True)