J.Bijsterbosch wrote: > Hello Edward, > > "Edvard Majakari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Thorsten Kampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >>>"sys.path.append('c:\\xxx\\yyy')" or "sys.path.append('c:/xxx/yyy')" >> >>Well, of course. As I said, it was untested :) I just copied the path > > string, > >>and didn't remember Windows uses path names which need special >>treatment. > > > Hmm, what you call special treatment<g> comes from pythons deep underlying C > and C++ language heietidge I presume. A backslash in a C or C++ string means > the following character is a so called escape character, like \n represents > a newline and \r a return to the beginning of a line. > If you really want a backslash you need to type it twice like so \\. Has > nothing to do with Windows...;-))
Actually, it does have a connection to Windows. On Unix, backslashes are rarely used for anything *except* escape characters. Pathnames tend not to include backslashes, so in most cases it's not necessary to escape backslashes in path names. On Windows, however, backslash is a valid path separator, and must be escaped. So, on Unix, for a path separator, you type "/". On Windows you can either do the same, or type "\\". (Or (ab)use raw strings.) -- James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
