NEWBIE TIP: Reading a file two different ways...from ENGSOL

[Markus Schaber]

Hi,

Peter Mayne <Peter.Mayne at au1.ibm.com> schrub:
[...]
>> readfile("c:\\python21\\tags\\cauxd.tex")
> 
> Windows is perfectly happy to accept "/" as a legal path separator, so
[...] 
> readfile("c:/python21/tags/cauxd.tex")
> 
> is more readable, and saves a comment 8-).

There's another way: raw strings

readfile(r"c:\python21\tags\cauxd.tex")

markus
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