On Feb 20, 3:52 pm, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Lionel <lionel.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello all: > > > I've crafted several classes and exceptions which I've stored in a > > file called "DataFileType.py". I then invoke them from within other > > files like this: > > > # Top of file > > > import sys > > sys.path.append("c:\DataFileTypes") > > Recall that the backslash is the escape character in Python and that > therefore you need to put \\ to get a backslash in the resulting path > string. Thus, the path you think you're adding isn't the path that's > getting added. > Alternatively, you can just use forward slashes instead (yes, that > works on Windows from Python). > > Cheers, > Chris > > -- > Follow the path of the Iguana...http://rebertia.com
But I'm only using a single backslash in the first example I gave, and it works just fine there. How can this be? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list