How to run .exe file in Desktop for Windows using Python?-CodePudding

I'm trying to run a .exe file written in Python by a click of a button located in Desktop. Need this to work on anyone's desktop so I tested below code but it's giving me errors:

Code:

import os

TestButton = os.path.join(os.path.join(os.environ['USERPROFILE']), 'Desktop', 'Test.exe')
os.system(TestButton)

Error:

C:\Users\<myuser>\Desktop\Test.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

How can I call test.exe from this location Desktop/Test/test.exe. Looking forward to your assist. Thank you very much.

CodePudding user response：

I'm not sure if you are posting pseudocode but python.exe is not valid variable, let alone argument

import os

python_exe = os.path.join(os.environ['USERPROFILE'], 'Desktop', 'python.exe')
os.system(python_exe)

Edit: Try

os.system(f'"{TestButton}"')

CodePudding user response：

Those whitespaces can really be a bother. Try os.chdir('C:/Documents\ and\ Settings/') followed by relative paths for os.system, subprocess methods, or whatever...

If best-effort attempts to bypass the whitespaces-in-path hurdle keep failing, then my next best suggestion is to avoid having blanks in your crucial paths. Couldn't you make a blanks-less directory, copy the crucial .exe file there, and try that? Are those havoc-wrecking space absolutely essential to your well-being...?