ChrisA wrote: > Mikhail V wrote: >> 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. If its about trailing \ - then this is issue with the syntax - not with the path. > 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. I am on windows, and the OP is (othrwise why would he ask?). If next version of windows will use forward slashes everywhere, then yes - there will be no "replace" happening. To the subject of the question - for the user it is most important to *see* and copy-paste the path string exactly as it is displayed everywhere else on windows. Other problems, like designing cross-platform utils, etc. are not really relevant to the simple use case (on windows). -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
