Yes, thank you.
Actually, I never knew that about the windows separators, since I've just
always used the '\' out of habit.
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Prasad, Ramit <ramit.pra...@jpmchase.com>wrote:
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> >your "\" is a "/"
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> >when writing out a string, such as 'C:\test.xls', the "/" is an escape in
> python. So you have two choices, You can either write
>
> out path = 'C:\\test.xls', which will be 'C:\test.xls' or you can write out
> path = r'C:\test.xls' the "r" bit tells python that the following is a
> regular expression. or regex.
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> ‘/’ is perfectly valid Windows separator. See the *tested* examples below.
> It works just fine pretty much anywhere I have ever tried it, including the
> command line. (except apparently for an MSOffice file save dialog that I
> tried just now)
>
>
>
> >>> import xlwt
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> >>> workbook = xlwt.Workbook()
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> >>> sheet = workbook.add_sheet('test')
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> >>> sheet.write(0,0,'test')
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> >>> workbook.save('C:/test')
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> >>> workbook.save('C:/test.xls')
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> >>> workbook.save('C:\\test2.xls')
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> >>> workbook.save(r'C:\test3.xls')
>
> >>>
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> The error he is getting may be unrelated to actually saving. I am not very
> familiar with the xlwt, but I know it does not write everything to file on
> the sheet.write() command. Save() actually does some writing and then saves
> the file. This can lead to misleading errors. I have had a similar error
> when writing non-ASCII data (and not changing the default ASCII encoding
> type).
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> Furthermore, the escape character is ‘\’ not ‘/’,
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> And r’string‘ means raw string not* *regular expression.
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> “String literals may optionally be prefixed with a letter 'r' or 'R'; such
> strings are called *raw strings* and use different rules for interpreting
> backslash escape sequences.” ~
> http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html
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> Ramit
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