On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 6:25 AM, Mikhail V <mikhail...@gmail.com> wrote: > Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > >>> On Windows a path is e.g.: >>> C:\programs\util\ >>> So what is reasonable about using forward slashes? >>> It happens to me that I need to copy-paste real paths like 100 times >>> a day into scripts - do you propose to convert to forward slashes each time? > >> That's what started the thread -- using backslashes caused a \a to be >> interpreted as a special character instead of two characters in the >> path. > > Yes, and the answer was a week ago: just put "r" before the string. > r"C:\programs\util" > > And it worked till now. So why should I replace backslashes with > forward slashes? > There is one issue that I can't write \ on the end: > r"C:\programs\util\" > > But since I know it's a path and not a file, I just write without trailing \.
That's exactly the issue. But if you just always separate paths with forward slashes, you never have a problem. There is no "replace" happening; you simply use the correct path separation character from the start. You can assemble strings from pieces without having to remember to slap an "r" in front of each literal; you can have slashes at the ends of strings; everything will just work. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
