Hello Fred, Backslashes are used as an escape and not just in Python ( consider '\r\n' ) To use a backslash you must escape it with two of them like this: \\ 'c:\\windows\\dir' or you can use a raw string: r"c:\windows\dir" or you can use forward slashes. Yes that works ;) "c:/windows/dir"
Windows uses '\' as a path sep but it also understands '/'. *nix uses '/' as a path sep. hth, M.E.Farmer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
