dakota input file analysis driver with space in executable path (running on Windows)

[mbieggy]

Hello,

I've got some optimization code in python that I'm developing and testing in Windows. My python path on Windows is C:\Program Files\Python312\python.exe and it's causing all sorts of problems with the analysis driver because of the space. The code will ultimately end up on a linux system and this won't be a problem, but I need it to work on Windows for testing.

I've tried enclosing the path in quotes:

analysis_driver = '"C:\Program Files\Python\Python312\python.exe" "C:\Users\REDACTED\git-local\optimizer\Optimizer.py" "C:\Users\REDACTED\git-local\optimizer\Example15.input_moga" parameters.in fom.txt' and I still get:

"C:\Program: Command not found.

Usually the quotes work with cmd, but not sure if I'm missing something with the dakota analysis_driver syntax?

Thanks.

[threesflux]

I've tried a few things with no success. Firstly I think Dakota may be recognizing the backslashes as escape characters. I believe you can at least fix that with replacing them all with forward slashes. After that, though, I have still had trouble in an example getting Dakota to recognize the whole quoted object as a single string still.

I believe the standard would be to edit the windows user environment variable for PATH so that python could just be called directly. Is there a reason why you wouldn't be able to just do this instead? It makes things a lot cleaner and easier