On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 11:06 PM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > > If you're using Unicode string literals, your choices are: > > 1. Raw string literals: > > var1 = ur"C:\Users\username\Desktop\η γλωσσα μου\mylanguage\myfile"
Raw unicode literals are practically useless in Python 2. They're not actually raw because \u and \U are still parsed as Unicode escapes, e.g. ur"C:\Users" and ur"C:\users" are syntax errors. > 2. Slashes: > > var1 = u"C:/Users/username/Desktop/η γλωσσα μου/mylanguage/myfile" I prefer to normalize a path with os.path.normpath, or pathlib.Path in Python 3. This converts slashes to backslashes to get a canonical Windows path. IMO, it's also visually better in a text representation or error messages. Otherwise at runtime joined paths often end up with mixed slashes, which to me is ugly. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
