doubling slashes in a string

[Joshua Muskovitz]

Man, I just have to say, I *love* python.  I was struggling with the problem
of how to take a pathname and double all of the backslashes in it, so that
(for example):

c:\foo\bar\zingo.walla.walla --> c:\\foo\\bar\\zingo.walla.walla

And I was trying for figure out how to walk the character list and build a
new string, and then it dawned on me:

newname = string.join(string.split(oldname,"\\"), "\\\\")

It just keeps getting better and better.  Thanks for inventing it, Guido!

-- josh




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