MATLAB: How to pass a matlab string as an exclamation point command

!exclamation_command

pathName = '.../foldername/subfoldername'
scriptName = 'main.py'

How do you issue a command to run some file in that folder without changing your working directory or current folder?

!python (pathName)/main.py &

This fails.

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If you use the system function instead of the exclamation point operator you can pass a fully parsed char array.

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