"Thomas W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I got a stupid problem; on my WinXP-box I want to scan the filesystem > and enter a path to scan like this : > > path_to_scan = 'd:\test_images'
I believe you can always use / instead of \ for Win filenames from Python. Avoids the \ problem. I think only the shell that uses / for options has a problem with / in filenames, but Python calls directly to C. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list