Run function with an argument containing quotation marks

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spareige22
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Registration: February 3, 2021 - 7:47 AM

February 3, 2021 - 7:56 AM

Hello everyone,
I'm trying to create a package for the automatic installation of Mindview 8 with user authentication based on Educonnect recognition (student authentication in the French National Education system).

The software publisher provides the arguments to pass:

setup.x64.msi /qn TRANSFORMS:=1036 SHOWKEEPSIGNIN=0 VLEID="gar.XXXXX"

To install it, I'm trying to use the run(r'..... function, but the quotation marks are causing me a problem; they are both a function of run and should be placed in the VLEID variable:

run('r"setup.x64.msi" /qn TRANSFORMS:=1036 SHOWKEEPSIGNIN=0 VLEID="gar.XXXXX" ')

Is this the correct method? Is there a specific syntax for passing quotation marks as arguments?

I tried the "\gar.XXXX\" method, but that also returns an error.

Thank you

. Have a good day.
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htouvet
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Registration: March 16, 2015 - 10:48
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February 3, 2021 - 9:26 AM

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run(r'setup.x64.msi /qn TRANSFORMS=1036 SHOWKEEPSIGNIN=0 VLEID="gar.XXXXX" ')
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