Regular Text

[jaeltong]

Hallo,
I am new to python.
I wrote a program to retrieve the filepath. eg. C:\Programs\Python\
and write it in a text file
It works fine until the path contains \t or \n. eg. C:\Programs\Python
\new\.
Because of the regular text format, I didn't get what I want in the
text file.

I tried to change the separator from \ to / but python only gives C:/
Programs/Python\new/.

How should I do to make sure that the program writes the correct path
in the text file?

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:53:55 -0300, <ja******@yahoo.co.ukescribió:

Hallo,
I am new to python.
I wrote a program to retrieve the filepath. eg. C:\Programs\Python\
and write it in a text file
It works fine until the path contains \t or \n. eg. C:\Programs\Python
\new\.
Because of the regular text format, I didn't get what I want in the
text file.

I tried to change the separator from \ to / but python only gives C:/
Programs/Python\new/.

How should I do to make sure that the program writes the correct path
in the text file?

In your code, you should use string literals like

my_path = r"C:\Programs\Python\new"
my_path = "C:\\Programs\\Python\\new"

But you said "a program to retrieve the filepath" - and I understand that
you dont have a string literal, and you compute it somehow. Escape
characters should not be a problem then. Have you verified the contents of
the text file? With notepad?

--
Gabriel Genellina

[jaeltong]

Wow, that is fast. Thanks.

In your code, you should use string literals like

my_path = r"C:\Programs\Python\new"
my_path = "C:\\Programs\\Python\\new"

But you said "a program to retrieve the filepath" - and I understand that
you dont have a string literal, and you compute it somehow. Escape
characters should not be a problem then. Have you verified the contents of
the text file? With notepad?

I meant, I used a GUI-Tkinter Script to retrieve the input(the
directory). my program is supposed to
1. get the directory from the GUI Script,
with my_path= FieldValue.insert(n, variable.get())
2. open a text file
3. and edit a filepath in the file,
4 then saving as another new file...

if that is the case, how should I do, in order to get the input in the
correct format??

[Peter Otten]

ja******@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

Wow, that is fast. Thanks.

>In your code, you should use string literals like

my_path = r"C:\Programs\Python\new"
my_path = "C:\\Programs\\Python\\new"

But you said "a program to retrieve the filepath" - and I understand that
you dont have a string literal, and you compute it somehow. Escape
characters should not be a problem then. Have you verified the contents
of the text file? With notepad?

I meant, I used a GUI-Tkinter Script to retrieve the input(the
directory). my program is supposed to
1. get the directory from the GUI Script,
with my_path= FieldValue.insert(n, variable.get())
2. open a text file
3. and edit a filepath in the file,
4 then saving as another new file...

if that is the case, how should I do, in order to get the input in the
correct format??

The user can input literals like "...\t..." via the GUI, and Python will
interpret the sequence "\t" as a backslash followed by the letter t. If you
want to allow the user to use forward slashes, too, apply
os.path.normpath():

.... os.path.normpath(variable.get()) ...

Peter