On Mar 26, 3:06 pm, alex23 <wuwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 26, 8:05 am, Scott David Daniels <scott.dani...@acm.org> wrote: > > > Well, yes in a way, but lots of places in windows you can get a copy > > of a full file spec into the cut buffer, so you cut/paste rather than > > type. If you do that, you get the backslashes (and you better be > > prepared for that by using r'' to paste into). > > The obvious solution, then, is to write something that monitors the > clipboard, intercepts any strings that are file paths, and replaces > the backslashes with their forward counterpart... > > :)
You would need to monitor where the user was about to paste it -- forward slashes in file paths are not grokked well at all in a Command Prompt window :-S -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
