On Nov 24, 3:27 pm, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > > .readlines() doesn't change the "\10" in a file to "\x08" in the string > it returns. > > Could you provide some code which shows your problem?
Here is the code block I have so far: for l in open(CONTENTS, 'r').readlines(): f = os.path.splitext(os.path.split(l.split('->')[0]))[0] if f in os.listdir(DIR1) and os.path.isdir(os.path.join(DIR1,f)): shutil.rmtree(os.path.join(DIR1,f)) if f in os.listdir(DIR2) and os.path.isdir(os.path.join(DIR2,f)): shutil.rmtree(os.path.join(DIR2,f)) I am trying to find dirs with the basename of the initial path less the extension in both DIR1 and DIR2 A minimally obfuscated line from the log file: K:\sm\SMI\des\RS\Pat\10DJ\121.D5-30\1215B-B-D5-BSHOE-MM.smz->/arch_m1/ smi/des/RS/Pat/10DJ/121.D5-30\1215B-B-D5-BSHOE-MM.smz ; t9480rc ; 11/24/2009 08:16:42 ; 1259068602 What I get from the debugger/python shell: 'K:\\sm\\SMI\\des\\RS\\Pat\x08DJQ.D5-30Q5B-B-D5-BSHOE-MM.smz->/arch_m1/ smi/des/RS/Pat/10DJ/121.D5-30/1215B-B-D5-BSHOE-MM.smz ; t9480rc ; 11/24/2009 08:16:42 ; 1259068602' TIA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list