Hi folks, I'm finding some (what I consider) curious behavior with the string methods and the forward slash character. I'm writing a program to rename mp3 files based on their id3 tags, and I want to protect against goofy characters in the in tags. So I do the following:
unsafe_chars = "/#()[EMAIL PROTECTED]&*{}\'\"`?<>| \t\n" alt_chars = "_________________________" s_artist.translate(maketranstable(unsafe_chars, alt_chars)) which successfully replaces everything except for forward slashes (at least in the files I've tested so far). If I use the "replace()" method, it also does not work. Escaping the forward slash changes nothing. "find()" however, works, and thus I've resorted to: if "/" in s_artist: (s_l, slash, s_r) = s_artist.partition("/") s_artist = "_".join([s_l, s_r]) which is rather uncool. It works but I'd just like to know what the deal is. TIA. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list