In article <mailman.605.1235434737.11746.python-l...@python.org>,
Rhodri James <rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>Just so that we're clear, this is a *really* *bad* habit to get into.
>Not appending to sys.path, though that isn't often a good idea, but
>failing to escape your backslashes. This works because '\D' happens
>not to be a valid escape sequence: if your directory had instead been
>called "newtypes" then "C:\newtypes" would not have had the result you
>were expecting at all. If you really mean a backslash to be in any
>literal string, you should always double it:
>
>sys.path.append("C:\\DataFileTypes")
My preference:
sys.path.append(r"C:\DataFileTypes")
This doesn't work if you need to add a trailing backslash, though.
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