[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have the simplest need...to read a file full of file names(unc) and > then check to see if each of these files exists. I tried with the > following program, but always get file not found, even when it is > there. If I type in the file name as a literal it works... > > Little program: > > #This module checks for file existence > import string > import sys > > def MainProcess(): > > fileList = "c:\a_list_of_filenames.txt"
\ is the escape character in strings, so if you need an actual backslash, you need to double it: fileList = "c:\\a_list_of_filenames.txt" or use "raw" string literals, which don't do any escaping: fileList = r"c:\a_list_of_filenames.txt" Please see the tutorial: http://docs.python.org/tut/node5.html#SECTION005120000000000000000 -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
