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os.system file names with spaces

Here is my python code (I am on Mac osx)

os.system("open Applications/Google Chrome")

I cannot figure out how to make spaces, or how to make this work.
Can someone tell me how to make terminal understand this?

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>Solution :

You need to add quotation marks around the file path, so it can understand that it is one argument:

os.system('open "Applications/Google Chrome"')
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