In article <mailman.1957.1237182478.11746.python-l...@python.org>, 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 =3D 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.
Alternatively, and I think better practice, undouble the backslashes instead of removing the 'r' prefix. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "At Resolver we've found it useful to short-circuit any doubt and just refer to comments in code as 'lies'. :-)" --Michael Foord paraphrases Christian Muirhead on python-dev, 2009-3-22 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
