Adding a char inside path string

[Hitesh]

Hi,

I get path strings from a DB like:

\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example.ex e

I am writing a script that can give me access to that exe file.
But problem is that string is not universal path, I need to add C$.
Any idea how I can add $ char in that string.
ServerName is not fixed length. It could be any chars length.

Thank you,
hj

[Fredrik Lundh]

"Hitesh" wrote:

I get path strings from a DB like:

\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example.ex e

I am writing a script that can give me access to that exe file.
But problem is that string is not universal path, I need to add C$.
Any idea how I can add $ char in that string.
ServerName is not fixed length. It could be any chars length.

upath = path.replace("C:", "C$")

</F>

[Hitesh]

Thank you Fredrik. That works for a string.
But I am getting list of tuples from DB.

rows = [('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example. exe',),
('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example2 .exe',),
('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example3 .exe',),
('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example4 .exe',)]

I tried this:
for i in rows:
row = str(i)
path = row.replace("C:" , "c$")
print path

I am getting path something like

('\\serverName\c$:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example .exe',)

How on the earth I can remove those paranthesis?

ty
hj

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

"Hitesh" wrote:

I get path strings from a DB like:

\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example.ex e

I am writing a script that can give me access to that exe file.
But problem is that string is not universal path, I need to add C$.
Any idea how I can add $ char in that string.
ServerName is not fixed length. It could be any chars length.

upath = path.replace("C:", "C$")

</F>

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

In <11**********************@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups .com>, Hitesh wrote:

That works for a string.
But I am getting list of tuples from DB.

rows = [('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example. exe',),
('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example2 .exe',),
('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example3 .exe',),
('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example4 .exe',)]

I tried this:
for i in rows:
row = str(i)
path = row.replace("C:" , "c$")
print path

I am getting path something like

('\\serverName\c$:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example .exe',)

How on the earth I can remove those paranthesis?

Well, don't convert the tuple to a string but get the string out of the
tuple instead.

for row in rows:
path = row[0].replace('C:', 'C$')
print path

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

[Tim Williams]

On 16/08/06, Dennis Lee Bieber <wl*****@ix.netcom.comwrote:

On 16 Aug 2006 09:00:57 -0700, "Hitesh" <hi*******@gmail.comdeclaimed
the following in comp.lang.python:

Thank you Fredrik. That works for a string.
But I am getting list of tuples from DB.

rows = [('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example. exe',),
('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example2 .exe',),
('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example3 .exe',),
('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example4 .exe',)]

I tried this:
for i in rows:
row = str(i)
path = row.replace("C:" , "c$")
print path

I am getting path something like

('\\serverName\c$:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example .exe',)

How on the earth I can remove those paranthesis?

By accessing the contents of the tuple, not the tuple itself

>rows = [('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example. exe',),

.... ('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example2 .exe',),
.... ('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example3 .exe',),
.... ('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example4 .exe',)]

>rows

[('\\serverName\\C:\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exam ple.exe',),
('\\serverName\\C:\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exam ple2.exe',),
('\\serverName\\C:\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exam ple3.exe',),
('\\serverName\\C:\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exam ple4.exe',)]

>modRows = [itm[0].replace("C:", "C$") for itm in rows]
modRows

['\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\examp le.exe',
'\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\examp le2.exe',
'\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\examp le3.exe',
'\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\examp le4.exe']

>>

Try

modRows = ['\\'+itm[0].replace(":", "$") for itm in rows]

It will work with any drive letter and makes an allowance for the
first escape character.

>>modRows

['\\\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exa mple.exe',
'\\\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exa mple2.exe',
.....etc

for r in modRows:
print r

\\serverName\C$\FolderName1\FolderName2\example.ex e
\\serverName\C$\FolderName1\FolderName2\example2.e xe
.......etc
:)

[Hitesh]

Thank you all it worked!.

Tim,

modRows = ['\\'+itm[0].replace(":", "$") for itm in rows]

What are those two forward slashes for?
I had to remove them otherwise I was getting output like '\\\\\\'
inside list or if I print I was getting like \\\

Thanks,
hj
Tim Williams wrote:

On 16/08/06, Dennis Lee Bieber <wl*****@ix.netcom.comwrote:

On 16 Aug 2006 09:00:57 -0700, "Hitesh" <hi*******@gmail.comdeclaimed
the following in comp.lang.python:

>
Thank you Fredrik. That works for a string.
But I am getting list of tuples from DB.
>
rows = [('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example. exe',),
('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example2 .exe',),
('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example3 .exe',),
('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example4 .exe',)]
>
I tried this:
for i in rows:
row = str(i)
path = row.replace("C:" , "c$")
print path
>
I am getting path something like
>
('\\serverName\c$:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example .exe',)
>
How on the earth I can remove those paranthesis?
>

By accessing the contents of the tuple, not the tuple itself

>>rows = [('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example. exe',),

.... ('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example2 .exe',),
.... ('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example3 .exe',),
.... ('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example4 .exe',)]

>>rows

[('\\serverName\\C:\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exam ple.exe',),
('\\serverName\\C:\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exam ple2.exe',),
('\\serverName\\C:\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exam ple3.exe',),
('\\serverName\\C:\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exam ple4.exe',)]

>>modRows = [itm[0].replace("C:", "C$") for itm in rows]
>>modRows

['\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\examp le.exe',
'\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\examp le2.exe',
'\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\examp le3.exe',
'\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\examp le4.exe']

>>>

Try

modRows = ['\\'+itm[0].replace(":", "$") for itm in rows]

It will work with any drive letter and makes an allowance for the
first escape character.

>modRows

['\\\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exa mple.exe',
'\\\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exa mple2.exe',
....etc

for r in modRows:
print r

\\serverName\C$\FolderName1\FolderName2\example.ex e
\\serverName\C$\FolderName1\FolderName2\example2.e xe
......etc
:)

[Tim Williams]

On 16 Aug 2006 10:30:26 -0700, Hitesh <hi*******@gmail.comwrote:

>
Thank you all it worked!.

Tim,

modRows = ['\\'+itm[0].replace(":", "$") for itm in rows]

What are those two forward slashes for?

Hi Hitesh,

\ is an escape character, it can give unexpected results depending
on the character following it.

Try this

>>print "c:\server\test"

then try

>>print "c:\\server\\test"

If you need \ in a string, you should use a pair of them for safety, see

http://docs.python.org/ref/strings.html

and http://pyfaq.infogami.com/windows-index (the comments section)

HTH :)

[Hitesh]

Hi,

Everything is working fine and dandy but I ran across another issue
here.
Some of the path comes with some extra chars padded at the end.
i.e.

'\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example.e xe' -u ABC -g XYZ
abcdef

Now those padded chars are not constant all the time. It can be
anything.
Only common denometer in each string that comes with those padded chars
is that it is after .exe and then there is space and then 99% of the
time it is -u and then there can be anything, I meant its dynemic after
that.

so I am using string1.find(".exe") and could retrive the index but
don't know how to get rid any garbase after index + 4

hj
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

On 16 Aug 2006 09:00:57 -0700, "Hitesh" <hi*******@gmail.comdeclaimed
the following in comp.lang.python:

Thank you Fredrik. That works for a string.
But I am getting list of tuples from DB.

rows = [('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example. exe',),
('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example2 .exe',),
('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example3 .exe',),
('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example4 .exe',)]

I tried this:
for i in rows:
row = str(i)
path = row.replace("C:" , "c$")
print path

I am getting path something like

('\\serverName\c$:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example .exe',)

How on the earth I can remove those paranthesis?

By accessing the contents of the tuple, not the tuple itself

>rows = [('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example. exe',),

... ('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example2 .exe',),
... ('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example3 .exe',),
... ('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example4 .exe',)]

>rows

[('\\serverName\\C:\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exam ple.exe',),
('\\serverName\\C:\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exam ple2.exe',),
('\\serverName\\C:\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exam ple3.exe',),
('\\serverName\\C:\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exam ple4.exe',)]

>modRows = [itm[0].replace("C:", "C$") for itm in rows]
modRows

['\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\examp le.exe',
'\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\examp le2.exe',
'\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\examp le3.exe',
'\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\examp le4.exe']

>>

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[Larry Bates]

Sounds like you can split the string on a space and throw
away the right side:

s='\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example .exe' -u ABC -g XYZ
p=s.split(" ", 1)[0]
print p

'\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example.e xe'

Larry Bates

Hitesh wrote:

>

Hi,

Everything is working fine and dandy but I ran across another issue
here.
Some of the path comes with some extra chars padded at the end.
i.e.

'\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example.e xe' -u ABC -g XYZ
abcdef

Now those padded chars are not constant all the time. It can be
anything.
Only common denometer in each string that comes with those padded chars
is that it is after .exe and then there is space and then 99% of the
time it is -u and then there can be anything, I meant its dynemic after
that.

so I am using string1.find(".exe") and could retrive the index but
don't know how to get rid any garbase after index + 4

hj
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

>On 16 Aug 2006 09:00:57 -0700, "Hitesh" <hi*******@gmail.comdeclaimed
the following in comp.lang.python:

>>Thank you Fredrik. That works for a string.
But I am getting list of tuples from DB.

rows = [('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example. exe',),
('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\exampl e2.exe',),
('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\exampl e3.exe',),
('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\exampl e4.exe',)]

I tried this:
for i in rows:
row = str(i)
path = row.replace("C:" , "c$")
print path

I am getting path something like

('\\serverName\c$:\FolderName1\FolderName2\examp le.exe',)

How on the earth I can remove those paranthesis?

By accessing the contents of the tuple, not the tuple itself

>>>>rows = [('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example. exe',),

... ('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example2 .exe',),
... ('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example3 .exe',),
... ('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example4 .exe',)]

>>>>rows

[('\\serverName\\C:\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exam ple.exe',),
('\\serverName\\C:\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exa mple2.exe',),
('\\serverName\\C:\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exa mple3.exe',),
('\\serverName\\C:\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exa mple4.exe',)]

>>>>modRows = [itm[0].replace("C:", "C$") for itm in rows]
modRows

['\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\examp le.exe',
'\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exam ple2.exe',
'\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exam ple3.exe',
'\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exam ple4.exe']
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[Hitesh]

That might work but what if I get (in future) a path name where
foldername (and in windows it is very common, someone might name a
folder something like "Screw You") with space?

Larry Bates wrote:

Sounds like you can split the string on a space and throw
away the right side:

s='\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example .exe' -u ABC -g XYZ
p=s.split(" ", 1)[0]
print p

'\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example.e xe'

Larry Bates

Hitesh wrote:

Hi,

Everything is working fine and dandy but I ran across another issue
here.
Some of the path comes with some extra chars padded at the end.
i.e.

'\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example.e xe' -u ABC -g XYZ
abcdef

Now those padded chars are not constant all the time. It can be
anything.
Only common denometer in each string that comes with those padded chars
is that it is after .exe and then there is space and then 99% of the
time it is -u and then there can be anything, I meant its dynemic after
that.

so I am using string1.find(".exe") and could retrive the index but
don't know how to get rid any garbase after index + 4

hj
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

On 16 Aug 2006 09:00:57 -0700, "Hitesh" <hi*******@gmail.comdeclaimed
the following in comp.lang.python:

Thank you Fredrik. That works for a string.
But I am getting list of tuples from DB.

rows = [('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example. exe',),
('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example 2.exe',),
('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example 3.exe',),
('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example 4.exe',)]

I tried this:
for i in rows:
row = str(i)
path = row.replace("C:" , "c$")
print path

I am getting path something like

('\\serverName\c$:\FolderName1\FolderName2\exampl e.exe',)

How on the earth I can remove those paranthesis?

By accessing the contents of the tuple, not the tuple itself

rows = [('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example. exe',),
... ('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example2 .exe',),
... ('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example3 .exe',),
... ('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example4 .exe',)]
rows
[('\\serverName\\C:\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exam ple.exe',),
('\\serverName\\C:\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exam ple2.exe',),
('\\serverName\\C:\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exam ple3.exe',),
('\\serverName\\C:\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exam ple4.exe',)]
modRows = [itm[0].replace("C:", "C$") for itm in rows]
modRows
['\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\examp le.exe',
'\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\examp le2.exe',
'\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\examp le3.exe',
'\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\examp le4.exe']
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[Hitesh]

>>s = '\\serverName\C:\Folder Name1\FolderName2\example.exe -u ABC -g XYZ'
p = s.split(" ", 1)[0]
p

'\\serverName\\C:\\Folder'

hj
Larry Bates wrote:

Sounds like you can split the string on a space and throw
away the right side:

s='\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example .exe' -u ABC -g XYZ
p=s.split(" ", 1)[0]
print p

'\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example.e xe'

Larry Bates

Hitesh wrote:

Hi,

Everything is working fine and dandy but I ran across another issue
here.
Some of the path comes with some extra chars padded at the end.
i.e.

'\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example.e xe' -u ABC -g XYZ
abcdef

Now those padded chars are not constant all the time. It can be
anything.
Only common denometer in each string that comes with those padded chars
is that it is after .exe and then there is space and then 99% of the
time it is -u and then there can be anything, I meant its dynemic after
that.

so I am using string1.find(".exe") and could retrive the index but
don't know how to get rid any garbase after index + 4

hj
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

On 16 Aug 2006 09:00:57 -0700, "Hitesh" <hi*******@gmail.comdeclaimed
the following in comp.lang.python:

Thank you Fredrik. That works for a string.
But I am getting list of tuples from DB.

rows = [('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example. exe',),
('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example 2.exe',),
('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example 3.exe',),
('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example 4.exe',)]

I tried this:
for i in rows:
row = str(i)
path = row.replace("C:" , "c$")
print path

I am getting path something like

('\\serverName\c$:\FolderName1\FolderName2\exampl e.exe',)

How on the earth I can remove those paranthesis?

By accessing the contents of the tuple, not the tuple itself

rows = [('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example. exe',),
... ('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example2 .exe',),
... ('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example3 .exe',),
... ('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example4 .exe',)]
rows
[('\\serverName\\C:\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exam ple.exe',),
('\\serverName\\C:\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exam ple2.exe',),
('\\serverName\\C:\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exam ple3.exe',),
('\\serverName\\C:\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\exam ple4.exe',)]
modRows = [itm[0].replace("C:", "C$") for itm in rows]
modRows
['\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\examp le.exe',
'\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\examp le2.exe',
'\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\examp le3.exe',
'\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\examp le4.exe']
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[Grant Edwards]

On 2006-08-16, Hitesh <hi*******@gmail.comwrote:

That might work but what if I get (in future) a path name where
foldername (and in windows it is very common, someone might name a
folder something like "Screw You") with space?

You must come up with a rigorous specification for what is and
isn't allowed at the end of a path.

Then delete the stuff that isn't allowed.

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[Hitesh]

anything after .exe should be truncated (or deleted).
Grant Edwards wrote:

On 2006-08-16, Hitesh <hi*******@gmail.comwrote:

That might work but what if I get (in future) a path name where
foldername (and in windows it is very common, someone might name a
folder something like "Screw You") with space?

You must come up with a rigorous specification for what is and
isn't allowed at the end of a path.

Then delete the stuff that isn't allowed.

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[Hitesh]

Here is a mediocare solution.

def TruncateString(s, Tindex):
return string.ljust(s,Tindex){:Tindex]

s = '\\serverName\\C:\\Folder Name1\\FolderName2\\example.exe -u ABC -g
XYZ'
Sindex = s.find(".exe")
Sindex = Tindex +4
s1 = TruncateString(s, Sindex)

Hitesh wrote:

anything after .exe should be truncated (or deleted).
Grant Edwards wrote:

On 2006-08-16, Hitesh <hi*******@gmail.comwrote:

That might work but what if I get (in future) a path name where
foldername (and in windows it is very common, someone might name a
folder something like "Screw You") with space?

You must come up with a rigorous specification for what is and
isn't allowed at the end of a path.

Then delete the stuff that isn't allowed.

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[Grant Edwards]

On 2006-08-16, Hitesh <hi*******@gmail.comwrote:

anything after .exe should be truncated (or deleted).

That will fail if any directory names contain the string
".exe", but if that's what you want, it's trivial enough:

for s in ["asdfasdf.exe -u", "soemthing/else", "asdf.exe/qwerqwer/qwerqwer.exe"]:
print `s`,
i = s.find(".exe")
print i,
if i >= 0:
s = s[:i+4]
print `s`

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[Grant Edwards]

On 2006-08-16, Hitesh <hi*******@gmail.comwrote:

>
Here is a mediocare solution.

def TruncateString(s, Tindex):
return string.ljust(s,Tindex){:Tindex]

s = '\\serverName\\C:\\Folder Name1\\FolderName2\\example.exe -u ABC -g
XYZ'
Sindex = s.find(".exe")
Sindex = Tindex +4
s1 = TruncateString(s, Sindex)

That will fail if the ".exe" isn't found.

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[Hitesh]

I post a crappy solution but I can add few more stuff to make it fail
proof.
i.e. I can search for ".exe -u"
But if someone names folder like "folder.exe u". This script could
fail.
Or if in padded garbase I get ".exe u"

These are two known issues I have to takcle.

Thanks everyone for your help.

Grant Edwards wrote:

On 2006-08-16, Hitesh <hi*******@gmail.comwrote:

anything after .exe should be truncated (or deleted).

That will fail if any directory names contain the string
".exe", but if that's what you want, it's trivial enough:

for s in ["asdfasdf.exe -u", "soemthing/else", "asdf.exe/qwerqwer/qwerqwer.exe"]:
print `s`,
i = s.find(".exe")
print i,
if i >= 0:
s = s[:i+4]
print `s`

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[Hitesh]

How about this:

def TruncateString(s, Tindex):
return string.ljust(s,Tindex){:Tindex]
s = '\\serverName\\C:\\Folder Name1\\FolderName2\\example.exe -u ABC -g

XYZ'
try:
Sindex = s.find(".exe")
if Sindex 0:
Sindex = Tindex + 4
s1 = TruncateString(s, Sindex)
except:
pass
hj

Hitesh wrote:

I post a crappy solution but I can add few more stuff to make it fail
proof.
i.e. I can search for ".exe -u"
But if someone names folder like "folder.exe u". This script could
fail.
Or if in padded garbase I get ".exe u"

These are two known issues I have to takcle.

Thanks everyone for your help.

Grant Edwards wrote:

On 2006-08-16, Hitesh <hi*******@gmail.comwrote:

anything after .exe should be truncated (or deleted).

That will fail if any directory names contain the string
".exe", but if that's what you want, it's trivial enough:

for s in ["asdfasdf.exe -u", "soemthing/else", "asdf.exe/qwerqwer/qwerqwer.exe"]:
print `s`,
i = s.find(".exe")
print i,
if i >= 0:
s = s[:i+4]
print `s`

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[Hitesh]

There was a typo. I corrected it.
Hitesh wrote:

How about this:

def TruncateString(s, Tindex):
return string.ljust(s,Tindex){:Tindex]
s = '\\serverName\\C:\\Folder Name1\\FolderName2\\example.exe -u ABC -g

XYZ'
try:
Sindex = s.find(".exe")
if Sindex 0:
Sindex = Sindex + 4
s1 = TruncateString(s, Sindex)
except:
pass
hj

Hitesh wrote:

I post a crappy solution but I can add few more stuff to make it fail
proof.
i.e. I can search for ".exe -u"
But if someone names folder like "folder.exe u". This script could
fail.
Or if in padded garbase I get ".exe u"

These are two known issues I have to takcle.

Thanks everyone for your help.

Grant Edwards wrote:

On 2006-08-16, Hitesh <hi*******@gmail.comwrote:
>
anything after .exe should be truncated (or deleted).
>
That will fail if any directory names contain the string
".exe", but if that's what you want, it's trivial enough:
>
for s in ["asdfasdf.exe -u", "soemthing/else", "asdf.exe/qwerqwer/qwerqwer.exe"]:
print `s`,
i = s.find(".exe")
print i,
if i >= 0:
s = s[:i+4]
print `s`
>
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[Anthra Norell]

Hitesh, You might want to try this:

>>tricky_path_name = '\\serverName\\C:\\exe files\\example.exe -u ABC -g DEF'

>>import SE

>>Editor = SE.SE ('C:=C$: "exe -=exe<clip here>"')

>>edited_path_name = Editor (tricky_path_name)

>>print edited_path_name # See what it did

\serverName\C$:\exe files\example.exe<clip here>u ABC -g DEF

>>path_name = edited_path_name.split ('<clip here>')[0]

>>print path_name

\serverName\C$:\exe files\example.exe # There you go
Note 1: As long as 'print edited_path_name' doesn't look right, change the substitution definitions that make your Editor. Maybe
there should be no colon after the '$'. So change ''C:=C$:' to ''C:=C$'. Should your Editor ever fail to handle a path name having
an unexpected format, add another substitution definition to also accommodate the new format.

Note 2: '<clip here>' is a self-documenting split mark. You'd pick a more convenient one.

Note 3: If the path name ends with 'exe' it works all the same. The edited path name will not have '<clip here>'. So the split will
be a list containing one element instead of two. In either case the edited path name is at index 0.

Note 4: Get SE at: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/SE/2.2%20beta

Regards

Frederic
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hitesh" <hi*******@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
To: <py*********@python.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 4:15 PM
Subject: Adding a char inside path string

Hi,

I get path strings from a DB like:

\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example.ex e

I am writing a script that can give me access to that exe file.
But problem is that string is not universal path, I need to add C$.
Any idea how I can add $ char in that string.
ServerName is not fixed length. It could be any chars length.

Thank you,
hj

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[Tim Williams]

On 17/08/06, Sybren Stuvel <sy*******@yourthirdtower.com.imaginationwrote:

Dennis Lee Bieber enlightened us with:

What happens when you get a pathname that looks like:

\\who\cares\common.exe\program.exe

Is that possible on Windows? At one point, I named a directory
"www.something.com" and then it wouldn't open, because it was an
invalid .COM file...

It is possible on XP. I just created this structure

C:\Documents and Settings\TW\Desktop\test\test.com\test.exe\test
space\data\data.txt

:)

[Grant Edwards]

On 2006-08-17, Sybren Stuvel <sy*******@YOURthirdtower.com.imaginationwrote:

Dennis Lee Bieber enlightened us with:

> What happens when you get a pathname that looks like:

\\who\cares\common.exe\program.exe

Is that possible on Windows?

Sure. Why wouldn't it be?

At one point, I named a directory "www.something.com" and then
it wouldn't open, because it was an invalid .COM file...

Works fine for me. I just created both directories and plain
text files named something.exe and www.something.com and both
worked fine under WinMe and WinXP.

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