John Machin wrote: > If you were to write 'c:\temp\book1.csv', it would blow up ... because > \t -> tab and \b -> backspace. Get into the habit of *always* using raw > strings r'C:\Temp\Book1.csv' for Windows file names (and re patterns). > You could use double backslashing 'C:\\Temp\\Book1.csv' but it's > uglier.
...alternatively you can just use 'unix slashes', e.g. 'c:/temp/book1.csv', since those work just fine 'cause the Windows APIs deal with them properly. -tom! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list