"Westbrook, Christopher L (WESTBCL04)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I am having some trouble, and I can't figure out why.
...
>form = cgi.FieldStorage()
>print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
>filename = form["file"].value+".txt" #all files end in .txt extension
>
>filename = filename.replace("\\","\\\\")
This line is incorrect. Backslashes are only treated as escape characters
when they are LITERAL strings in a Python source file. When you're reading
a filename from some outside source like this, the string will already
contain the correct characters.
What you'll end up with is literally double backslashes. For example, if
you read a variable containing c:\tmp\new.txt, you will end up with
c:\\tmp\\new.txt, AS IF you had given the literal string
"c:\\\\tmp\\\\new.txt".
Fortunately, most Win32 APIs will ignore double-backslashes, but it isn't
right. And, they are guaranteed not to work if they are the first
characters of the filename.
>#print filename
>
>f = file(filename,'\r') #open file for reading
Where did you get that? \r is a carriage return. You need a letter "r":
f = file(filename, 'r')
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