Join argv list with spaces

I'm a Python noob. This is the code I'm using:

for i in argv[2:]:                                 # argv[1] isn't required by s.py
    if ' ' in i:
        argv[argv.index(i)] = '"%s"' % i
args = ' '.join(argv[2:])
os.system('s.py '+args)

Is there a more elegant way to do this?

You shouldn't use os.system to run commands. You should use subprocess instead, for example:

from sys import argv
import subprocess

cmd = 's.py'
args = [cmd] + argv[2:]
subprocess.call(args)

This is a lot cleaner. In your version you added quotes around the command line arguments that contained spaces. (Which btw would break spectacularly if the command line arg also contained quote character...) Using subprocess, you don't need such dirty hacks.

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