materil...@gmail.com wrote: >Hello everybody >I'm trying to run this: > ><code> >>>> a = 'E:\Dropbox\jjfsdjjsdklfj\sdfjksdfkjslkj\flute.wav' >>>> a.split('\') > >SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal ></code> > >I think that the character '\' is the problem, but unfortunately I'm >developing a small app for windows and I need to show only the name >of the .wav file, in this case 'flute.wav'.
I assume you know that backslash has a special meaning in string constants. For example the string '\n\r' contains exactly two characters, and no backslashes. When you want to use an actual backslash in an ordinary string constant, you have to double it. So, you could have written your code as: a = 'E:\\Dropbox\\jjfsdjjsdklfj\\sdfjksdfkjslkj\\flute.wav' a.split('\\') Another altrnative is to use "raw" strings, in which backslashes are not interpreted: a = r'E:\Dropbox\jjfsdjjsdklfj\sdfjksdfkjslkj\flute.wav' a.split(r'\') I assume your filename is actually input to your program, and not as a constant in your code, so that may not be a problem. However, there is an API to do exactly what you're asking: >>> import os >>> a=r'E:\Dropbox\one\two\three\flute.wav' >>> os.path.split(a) ('E:\\Dropbox\\one\\two\\three', 'flute.wav') >>> os.path.split(a)[1] 'flute.wav' >>> >I also want to know how to mirror a character, in my case this one ©, >because I'll use the Copyleft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft >to distribute my app. You can't "mirror" a character. That is an invented glyph that is not present in Unicode. Fortunately, the character doesn't have any legal meaning, so you can just include explanatory text in your description that identifies your license. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list