On 12/19/2011 4:02 PM, Juan Declet-Barreto wrote: > 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. Whatever code is getting the path and storing it into a variable needs to escape the path. Otherwise, you'll have to replace each tab/newline/etc. with literal \t/\n/\r/etc., and that's ugly and could lead to problems (you may have special characters you want to keep). The reason your replace code didn't work is because the \t is a tab character, not a literal "\t". The replace function doesn't see "\t", but rather a tab.
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