Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
Generally, converting slashes manually should be kept at a minimum. You
should be using library functions as much as possible. The experts here
can correct me here, but this is a roundabout way I would be doing this:
str.replace('\\', '/') is a perfectly fine library function to use to
convert backslashes.
[...]
# Use raw strings so that backslash doesnt matter
path=r'C:\Users\Dick\Desktop\Documents\Notes\College Notes.rtf'
That's not quite true. Even with raw strings, you can't write:
path = r'C:\Users\Dick\Desktop\Documents\Notes\'
Try it and see what happens.
[...]
I am not happy with the loop to collect the components. But I couldn't
find a single path function which splits a path into all the components
in one go.
Just use str.split.
Be prepared to filter out empty path components if the user enters a
path with doubled-up backslashes:
C:\Users\Dick\\Desktop
but that's no real difficulty.
--
Steven
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