whitespaces in the path of windows filepath
Question: I am working on file operations using python.

I have a filepath as :

    
    
    filepath = "E:/ABC/SEM 2/testfiles/all.txt"
    

when I am opening the file using python, it says me :

    
    
    IOError: No such file:
    

but, the file is present on the drive.  
It may be because windows cannnot take "SEM 2" properly as it contains space.  
How can I deal with such whitespaces in the path of window path?


Answer: There is no problem with whitespaces in the path since you're not using the
"shell" to open the file. Here is a session from the windows console to prove
the point. You're doing something else wrong

    
    
    Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 12 2011, 14:24:46) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on wi
    32
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> import os
    >>>
    >>> os.makedirs("C:/ABC/SEM 2/testfiles")
    >>> open("C:/ABC/SEM 2/testfiles/all.txt","w")
    <open file 'C:/ABC/SEM 2/testfiles/all.txt', mode 'w' at 0x0000000001D95420>
    >>> exit()
    
    C:\Users\Gnibbler>dir "C:\ABC\SEM 2\testfiles"
     Volume in drive C has no label.
     Volume Serial Number is 46A0-BB64
    
     Directory of c:\ABC\SEM 2\testfiles
    
    13/02/2013  10:20 PM    <DIR>          .
    13/02/2013  10:20 PM    <DIR>          ..
    13/02/2013  10:20 PM                 0 all.txt
                   1 File(s)              0 bytes
                   2 Dir(s)  78,929,309,696 bytes free
    
    C:\Users\Gnibbler>
    

