On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:47:54 -0700, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:24 PM, venutaurus...@gmail.com > <venutaurus...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> I have to write an application which does a move and copy of a >> file from a remote machine to the local machine. I tried something >> like: >> >> file = ur"\\\\venuwin2008\\C\\4Folders\\Folder02\\Folder002\ >> \TextFile_06.txt" > > The 'r' prefix on the string makes it a raw string, meaning you don't > have do double-up the backslashes, but you did so anyway, so your path > has many extra backslashes, making it invalid. Dropping the 'r' prefix > should fix the problem.
Also, the file isn't really remote if you can use the normal local file system calls to read it. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu \X/ snipabacken.se> R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
