On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:24:46 -0000, Lionel <lionel.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
sys.path.append("C:\DataFileTypes")
Just so that we're clear, this is a *really* *bad* habit to get into. Not appending to sys.path, though that isn't often a good idea, but failing to escape your backslashes. This works because '\D' happens not to be a valid escape sequence: if your directory had instead been called "newtypes" then "C:\newtypes" would not have had the result you were expecting at all. If you really mean a backslash to be in any literal string, you should always double it: sys.path.append("C:\\DataFileTypes") IMHO, Python is somewhat inconsistent in not producing a compile-type error (or at least an annoying compile-time warning) when presented with invalid escape sequences. What it does, even though it's well-documented and usually the right guess, is to encourage bad habits. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeeste Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list