Reading files located on Windows-shares?

[Alex Martelli]

"Thomas Weholt" <thomas at gatsoft.no> wrote in message
news:Z1b58.67$ti7.170870784 at news.telia.no...
    ...
> for host in hosts:
>     print open('\\%s\\data\config.dat', 'r').read()
>
> Doesn't work. How can I work with Windows-shared folders using Python ??

Same as when using C: mind the backslashes and the substitutions.

    r'\\%s\\data\config.dat'%host

should work better: the leading r makes this literal into a rawstring (so
backslashes are taken literally) and the % operator formats string host
into the resulting filepath.  If the underlying C library supports UNC,
that's all you need.  Else, you'll need the win32all extensions.


Alex