Mikhail V <mikhail...@gmail.com> writes: > [Steven D'Aprano] > >> (The same applies to Unix/Linux systems too, of course.) But while you're >> using Python to manipulate files, you should use Python rules, and that >> is "always use forward slashes". >> >> Is that reasonable? >> >> Under what circumstances would a user calling open(pathname) in Python >> need to care about backslashes? > > Cough cough > > On Windows a path is e.g.: > C:\programs\util\ > > So why should I use forward slashes in a Python literal? > I don't remember any problem caused by using backslashes in paths in Python - > are there problems? > (Apart from the fact that Python dos not have true raw string literals) > > So what is reasonable about using forward slashes? > It happens to me that I need to copy-paste real paths like 100 times > a day into scripts - do you propose to convert to forward slashes each time?
That's what started the thread -- using backslashes caused a \a to be interpreted as a special character instead of two characters in the path. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
