On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:31:07 -0400, Brad wrote:
> When reading a file into a list that contains windows file paths like
> this:
>
> c:\documents and settings\brad\desktop\added_software\asus\a.txt
>
> I get a list that contains paths that look like this:
>
> c:\\documents and settings\\brad\\desktop\\added_software\\asus\\a.txt
What makes you think that there are doubled backslashes in the string?
Look at this:
>>> path = r'C:\docs\file.txt' # Single backslashes
>>> path
'C:\\docs\\file.txt'
>>> print path
C:\docs\file.txt
>>> len(path)
16
Despite how it looks, the backslashes are all singles, not doubles:
>>> path[2]
'\\'
>>> len(path[2])
1
When you display strings, by default special characters are escaped,
including backslashes. (Otherwise, how could you tell whether the \f in
the path meant backslash followed by f or a formfeed?)
Python interprets backslashes as special when reading string literals,
NOT when reading them from a file:
>>> open('backslash.txt', 'w').write('docs\\files')
>>> s = open('backslash.txt', 'r').read()
>>> s
'docs\\files'
>>> print s
docs\files
>>> len(s)
10
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