Thomas W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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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'
I believe you can always use / instead of \ for Win filenames from Python.
Avoids
Peter Hansen wrote:
Benji York wrote:
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, you're confusing things: you probably meant r'd:\test_images'
in the above
Doh! I did
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'
This is used in a larger context and joined like
real_path_after_scanning = os.path.join(path_to_scan, somepart, 'foo',
'bar', filename)
Using
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
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'
path_to_scan = r'd:\test_images'
This is used in a larger context and joined like
real_path_after_scanning =
Benji York wrote:
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, you're confusing things: you probably meant r'd:\test_images' in
the above, but in any case I think Robert Kern's on
