Hello James,
"James Dennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht
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> J.Bijsterbosch wrote:
>
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> >>and didn't remember Windows uses path names which need special
> >>treatment.
> >
> > Hmm, what you call special treatment<g> comes from pythons deep
underlying C
> > and C++ language heietidge I presume. A backslash in a C or C++ string
means
> > the following character is a so called escape character, like \n
represents
> > a newline and \r a return to the beginning of a line.
> > If you really want a backslash you need to type it twice like so \\. Has
> > nothing to do with Windows...;-))
>
> Actually, it does have a connection to Windows.
>
> On Unix, backslashes are rarely used for anything *except* escape
> characters. Pathnames tend not to include backslashes, so in most
> cases it's not necessary to escape backslashes in path names.
I know<g>, I've had mandrake installed for some time until that pc died on
me, the pc that is, not mandrake...
> On Windows, however, backslash is a valid path separator, and must be
> escaped.
>
> So, on Unix, for a path separator, you type "/". On Windows you
> can either do the same, or type "\\". (Or (ab)use raw strings.)
Okay, point taken, but I still think it's more a C(++) string thing than a
Windows
issue. I could of course argue that the backslash path separator is there
for backward
compatebility with Dos, but I won't, much to off topic...;-))
> James
Greetings from overcast Amsterdam,
Jan
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