Let's see if I can get this right.....as I am working on memory and not enough
sleep.
The 'r' means that using a raw string so the backslashes aren't escaped
out....
The equivalent without using the 'r' would be: os.chdir('c:\\temp')
--Todd
On Monday 08 August 2005 03:07 am, Don Parris wrote:
> The book, "Programming Python", shows an example of os.chdir() on the
> Windows platform, as follows:
>
> os.chdir(r'c:\temp')
>
> What's the 'r' for? It didn't seem to make any difference in how
> Python works - at least not on the surface.
>
> Thanks,
> Don
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