Jay Loden schrieb: > Robert Dailey wrote: >> str = "C:/somepath/folder/file.txt" >> >> for char in str: >> if char == "\\": >> char = "/"
> strings in Python are immutable - in other words, they cannot be updated in > place as you're doing above. However, that doesn't mean you can't achieve > what you're after. In Python, the way to approach this problem since you > cannot modify the string in place, is to create a new string object with the > desired content: Also note, that you are just extracting one char from the string into another variable (which you then change) and you are *not* getting any "reference" to the char in the string. As has been alreagy told, use the str.replace() function -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
