"J.Bijsterbosch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmm, what you call special treatment<g> comes from pythons deep underlying C > and C++ language heietidge I presume. A backslash in a C or C++ string means > the following character is a so called escape character, like \n represents > a newline and \r a return to the beginning of a line. > If you really want a backslash you need to type it twice like so \\. Has > nothing to do with Windows...;-))
Yes, I'm well aware of that. However, you can say that using '\' as a path separator needs special treatment, because it is conventionally treated as an escape character. Moreover, I wans't the one asking for information, I have privilidge to use real operating systems as a programming platform. Thanks for enthsiasm, though :) -- # Edvard Majakari Software Engineer # PGP PUBLIC KEY available Soli Deo Gloria! You shouldn't verb verbs. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
