En Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:12:13 -0200, nodrogbrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�:
> i am using python on WinXP..i have a string 'folder ' that i want to > join to a set of imagefile names to create complete qualified names so > that i can create objects out of them > > folder='F:/brown/code/python/fgrp1' > filenms=['amber1.jpg', 'amber3.jpg', 'amy1.jpg', 'amy2.jpg'] > filenameslist=[] > for x in filenms: > myfile=join(folder,x) > filenameslist.append(myfile) > > now when i print the filenameslist i find that it looks like > > ['F:/brown/code/python/fgrp1\\amber1.jpg', > 'F:/brown/code/python/fgrp1\\amber3.jpg', 'F:/brown/code/python/fgrp1\ > \amy1.jpg', 'F:/brown/code/python/fgrp1\\amy2.jpg'] > > is there some problem with the way i use join? why do i get \\ infront > of the basename? join is fine. "\\" is a single character. \ is used as the escape character, and has to be doubled when representing itself. Print an individual element to see the effect: print filenameslist[0] F:/brown/code/python/fgrp1\amber1.jpg (a list uses repr() on its elements instead of str()). > i would prefer it like 'F:/brown/code/python/fgrp1/basename.jpg', If the string is only used to open a file, and never shown to the user, what you prefer is irrelevant, isn't it? What is important here is what Windows prefers, and that's a backslash, although many times / is accepted too. You can convert the file names to their preferred spelling using os.path.normpath Back to your code, try this: from os.path import join, normpath folder = 'F:/brown/code/python/fgrp1' names = ['amber1.jpg', 'amber3.jpg', 'amy1.jpg', 'amy2.jpg'] filenameslist = [normpath(join(folder, name)) for name in names] -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
