Hi Tim, On Apr 22, 4:04 pm, Tim Golden wrote: > On 22/04/2010 15:13, Infinity77 wrote: > > [I] choose this file myself, the FileDialog (a window representing a file > > selector dialog) will return something like this (let's ignore the > > back/forward slashes, this is not an issue): > > > Y:/Folder/FileName.txt > > > If my colleague does it, he will get: > > > Z:/Folder/FileName.txt > > > Even if I am able to work out the server name using the Windows drive > > letter (and I was able to do it, now I don't remember anymore how to > > do it), what I get is: > > > For me: //SERVER/gavana/Folder/FileName.txt > > Colleague: //SERVER/Colleague/Folder/FileName.txt > > Why do you and your colleagues have different share names?
I have no idea, I will ask our IT, they set it up :-) > Can you just use a UNC like the above and end up with the same path? By the few tests I run up to now, seems like I can... it seems odd however for a file name stored somewhere (I mean, the string representing the file name) to have my name in it. Feels fragile and incorrect. But whatever ;-) Thank you Tim for your help. Andrea. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
