Problem with a tuple - newbie ignorance

[Steve Holden]

"Neil Schemenauer" <nas at arctrix.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.979623448.23926.python-list at python.org...
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:00:48AM -0500, Alan Daniels wrote:
> > 3) If you find yourself doing the double-backslash a lot (thanks,
> > Microsoft!), rather than typing...
> > > dir = os.listdir('D:\\statlab\\ssda\\data')
> > ...you can write this as...
> >
> >   dir = os.listdir(r'D:\statlab\ssda\data')
>
> How about:
>
>     dir = os.listdir('D:/statlab/ssda/data')
>
> I'm pretty sure that works too but I'm running Linux now and
> can't test it.
>
>   Neil
>
It does.

regards
 Steve