Problems with path

[Fredrik Lundh]

"hamido" <hamido at tmsk.itm.edu.my> wrote:

> Why this statement will generate errors
>
>  shutil.copy2("c:\hamido.sql", "c:\ali1.ali")
>  shutil.copy2('c:\hamido.sql', 'c:\ali1.ali')

because "\a" is a character escape (ascii code 7), not a
backslash followed by an "a".

three solutions:

- use forward slashes instead ("c:/ali1.ali")
- double the backslashes ("c:\\ali1.ali")
- use "raw" strings (r"c:\ali1.ali")

to get the full story, check the section on strings in your favourite
python book, or read the on-line manual:

    http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/node5.html#SECTION005120000000000000000
    http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/strings.html

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