On Feb 13, 5:11 pm, Tim Roberts <t...@probo.com> wrote: > ecu_jon <hayesjd...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > >i know backslashes are special. there a special pain in my #$%. > >without a windows environment, you would have to change destination2 > >significantly to try it out. but like i said above you can try version > >11 in a linux environment. > > If they are a pain in your #$%, then don't use them. You can use forward > slashes everywhere in Windows, except when typing commands at the command > prompt. ALL of the Windows file system APIs accept forward slashes. > -- > Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
can you give an example of how to build a folder name, maybe as a string, with parts of it as variables, that have to be strung together. like x = "//servername/+variable+"/"+variable+"/" when i did something liek that the end result string was like //servername/folder/folder\file and i got an error -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list