Thomas W wrote: > I got a stupid problem; on my WinXP-box I want to scan the filesystem > and enter a path to scan like this : > > path_to_scan = 'd:\test_images'
Note the lack of an "r" prefix and the \t sequence above. > The problem is that some of the parts being joined contains escape > characters > If I take the seperate parts and join them using the interpreter, > like : > >>>> f = r'd:\test_images\something\foo\bar\test.jpg' > > it works ok and os.path.exists(f) returns True, but I cannot the that > r' in front using the os.path.join-method in my code. It's not join that's getting you, it's the non-raw string representation in path_to_scan. Use either 'd:\test_images' or 'd:\\test_images' instead. -- Benji York -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
