On 2/11/2006 2:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> ...alternatively you can just use 'unix slashes', e.g.
> >> 'c:/temp/book1.csv', since those work just fine 'cause the Windows
> >> APIs deal with them properly.
>
> John> Not all APIs do the right thing. If you fire up the cmd.exe shell
> John> and feed it slashes as path separators, it barfs. Example:
> John> C:\junk>dir c:/junk/*.bar
> John> Invalid switch - "junk".
> John> Hence the advice to use rawstrings with backslashes -- they work
> John> under all circumstances.
>
> I think he means "the Windows APIs" within a Python program.
>
> Skip
>
I too think he meant that. I left the mental gymnastics of wrapping what
I wrote into an os.system call as an exercise for the reader.
| >>> import os
| >>> os.system("dir c:/junk/*.bar")
| Invalid switch - "junk".
| 1
| >>> os.system(r"dir c:\junk\*.bar")
| [snip]
| 02/11/2006 01:21 PM 8 foo.bar
| [snip]
| 0
| >>>
Cheers,
John
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