🔒 Subprocess behaves differently from cmd

[sacred current]

I'm trying to get this command working: bin\quickbms.exe -l bin\InstExpl.wcx ALF2CD-230.exe
the problem is, for whatever reason, it only works if it's run like this:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /d /c ""D:\Programieren\UniPyX\bin\quickbms.exe" -l "D:\Programieren\UniPyX\bin\InstExpl.wcx" "D:\Programieren\python\UniPyX\ALF2CD-230.exe"
the problem is that I'm unable to replicate this in python, I am able to run it like this in powershell but with python cmd gives me all kinds of syntax errors or the program doesn't execute correctly

here are the files:
https://update.bioruebe.com/uniextract/nightly/bin/quickbms.exe
https://update.bioruebe.com/uniextract/nightly/bin/InstExpl.wcx
https://update.bioruebe.com/uniextract/nightly/bin/InstExpl.dll
https://www.rarewares.org/rrw/files/others/ALF2CD-230.exe

[crisp pine]

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[craggy skiff]

What happens if you run that it in cmd.exe?
I'm not downloading random binaries you've linked to, they could contain viruses or anything. Please only link to source code and text, not executables.

[sacred current]

well I can't cause there is no source code for the exes except for quickbms which can be found here https://github.com/LittleBigBug/QuickBMS
this is the only program that I know of with this issue

[craggy skiff]

You're out of luck then.

[sacred current]

I'm unable to get it to work in cmd as whatever I try, I can't get " escaped

[craggy skiff]

https://ss64.com/nt/syntax-esc.html

[sacred current]

I got it working now, thanks! besides the incorrect escaping, the program I use has some dependencies that weren't listed anywhere that I didn't copy

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[crisp pine]

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