address "'http:" not found: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed.

When I try the sample code of scrapy tutorial in Creating a project, Extracting data,after type

scrapy shell 'http://quotes.toscrape.com/page/1/'

I got a exception like

twisted.internet.error.DNSLookupError: DNS lookup failed: address "'http:" not found: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed.

and my operating system is windows with python 2.7

[kmike]

@redapple it seems quoting rules are different in cmd.exe (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24173825/what-does-single-quote-do-in-windows-batch-files) - only double quotes are supported. It means that on Linux and OS X the right way is to use single quotes, and on Windows the right way is to use double quotes. My vote is to add a note about Windows and keep single quotes in examples.

[kmike]

@LancelotHolmes it works because there is nothing to escape in these URLs; these URLs work without quotes in linux as well. But in linux the example start to fail as soon as user changes URL to another URL, with GET arguments, because & has special meaning in shell. So we used quotes in tutorial to promote good practices.

It seems escaping in windows shell is more tricky; there is no equivalent for unix single quotes. According to http://ss64.com/nt/syntax-esc.html percent character still needs to be escaped, even if it is inside quotes. On the other hand, unlike bash, & char is not a problem under Windows.