On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:20:16 -0800, Jugdish wrote:
> Hi, I'm having problems getting a pound sign to go through as input sent
> to the raw_input() command. I'm running Python 2.5.1 on Windows XP.
> Here's my simple little script:
>
> while True:
> response = raw_input("Please enter a file name: ") if
> os.path.exists(response):
> break
>
> Problem is if the filename has a "#" in it, the script interprets that
> as the beginning of a comment (not sure why -- isn't raw_input supposed
> to treat the user's input as raw text and not do any sort of evals?)
Yes it is. What makes you think it is being interpreted as a comment?
What results are you getting?
> Any ideas how to get a # to go through? Thanks!
Works for me (although I'm not using Windows XP).
Can you execute this line at the interactive interpreter?
print raw_input("Type something with a hash sign: ")
At the prompt, type "test # string" (without the quotes) and show us what
result you get. When I do this, I get the following:
>>> print raw_input("Type something with a hash sign: ")
Type something with a hash sign: test # string
test # string
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