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Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 09:23:55 +1000
Subject: Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.
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On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 4:39 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
>> Since you have a space in the name, you'll need quotes:
>>
>>
>> cd "c:\Beautiful Soup"
>
>
> Not for Win 7, at least
>
> C:\Users\Terry>cd \program files
>
> C:\Program Files>

Huh, good to know.

Unfortunately, Windows leaves command-line parsing completely up to
the individual command/application, so some will need quotes, some
won't, and some will actually do very different things if you put an
argument in quotes (look at START and FIND). There is a broad
convention that spaces in file names get protected with quotes, though
(for instance, tab completion will put quotes around them), so it's
not complete chaos.

ChrisA