Tim Roberts <t...@probo.com> writes: > 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.
Even better: Don't manually handle the path component separator at all, and use ‘os.path.join’ to do it correctly. That's exactly what it's there for. -- \ “We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't | `\ scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what | _o__) annoys me.” —Jack Handey | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
