All, I have a Windows-style path that I need to modify so Python functions can find it. For example, the path "C:\Projects\Population_Pyramids\charts\test.xls" is being interpreted as pointing to a file called "est.xls" since the "t" is being escaped by the preceding slash as a tab.
I know this is straightforward to handle using raw literals by prefixing the
literal with an 'r', but my path is stored in a variable.
My questions are: 1. How do I prevent single slashes from being escaped in a
string variable (NOT literal)?
2. Is it possible to do a string.replace
to substitute all instances of '\' for '\\'? I tried this but it did not give
me the desired result.
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City of Mesa
Office: 480.644.4751
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