OriginalBrownster wrote: [I un-bottom-posted this] > Jim wrote: >> Try using: tempname = "\\" >> Jim > that stores tempname as "\\" > > ..
I don't think so. I think you just think it's storing it as that because if you enter it at the interactive prompt it shows '\\'. But try len(tempname) and see if it's 1. -- --OKB (not okblacke) Brendan Barnwell "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path, and leave a trail." --author unknown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list