> While I can't speak to Windows specific issues, I think this may > actually be simpler -- try slapping an 'r' before your Windows file > path string, i.e. r'c:\blah.txt'. I think what's happening is the "\b" > is turning into a backspace or similar, since backslash is used for > string escapes. (see also \n, \t etc). > Using raw strings, r"my string here", should eliminate most of that > escaping related behavior.
That's what I get for my Python newbiness. I made the local_file a raw string and it worked like a charm. thanks!! -- ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ ¤ kyoboku kazeoshi ¤ ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ _______________________________________________ Fab-user mailing list Fab-user@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fab-user
