Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 15:10:23 +1000, Timothy Smith ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > > >>i'm very curious as to what everyone thinks >> >> > > I suspect most of us think: Where's the code? > followed by: Where's the traceback? > > As for your statement of verifying the path and filename... We >haven't seen it so can't guess... (part of the "where's the code") > > Does the path contain \n, \t, \r, \f, etc. If it does, and you >are not using a raw string, you are looking for a file with newline, >tab, carriage return, formfeed, etc. respectively in the name. > > >fid = "c:\temp\something.pdf" #bad, this is ># c:<tab>emp\something.pdf ># assuming \s isn't some special character > >fid = r"c:\temp\something.pdf" #good >fid = "c:\\temp\\something.pds" #okay > > > it's iterally just
PDFname = 'tmp.pdf' os.startfile(PDFname) thats the code. so obviously it contains no errnous characters. see my update btw. it actually DOES open the report, but throws up the exception as well. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
