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J. D.
J. D.

Reputation: 171

Running Batch File from Python

I am trying to run a batch file through python; however, it is not recognizing the path. It stops reading the path after the space between 'Practice' and 'Folder'. How can I fix this? I've tried the r and using forward and backward slashes. Any help would be awesome. Thank you!

import os

Practice = r"C:\Users\Username\Desktop\Practice Folder\Practice.bat"
os.system(Practice)

'C:\Users\Username\Desktop\Practice' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3939

Answers (4)

Melvin Abraham
Melvin Abraham

Reputation: 3036

Try using call from subprocess module. You need to enclose the command only in double quotes.

from subprocess import call

call(r'"C:\Users\Username\Desktop\Practice Folder\Practice.bat"')

(Notice the order of placing quotes...)

This would even work with os.system() provided you take care the order of quotation marks.

from os import system

system(r'"C:\Users\Username\Desktop\Practice Folder\Practice.bat"')

This should help fix your problem.

Upvotes: 2

michael_heath
michael_heath

Reputation: 5372

Change working directory to the script directory as you are using some relative redirection paths. Pushd changes current directory to any drive and can map network drives. The && chains commands and only runs the right hand command if the left hand command succeeds. %UserProfile% is a standard environmental variable which is usually better then using a fixed path of C:\Users\Username.

import os
Practice = r'pushd "%UserProfile%\Desktop\Practice Folder" && Practice.bat'
os.system(Practice)

Upvotes: 1

SuperStew
SuperStew

Reputation: 3054

Try this

import os
Practice = os.path.abspath(r"C:\Users\Username\Desktop\Practice Folder\Practice.bat")

Edit:

Something like this worked for me

os.system(r'"C:\Users\Username\Desktop\Practice Folder\Practice.bat"')

Upvotes: 0

Jonathon McMurray
Jonathon McMurray

Reputation: 2981

You probably need to use two types of quotation marks e.g.

import os

Practice = r"'C:\Users\Username\Desktop\Practice Folder\Practice.bat'"
os.system(Practice)

As it is, your string does not contain quotation marks - you need to include quotation marks within your string or else Windows will think that Folder\Practice.bat is an argument to the command rather than a continuation of the file path

Upvotes: 0

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