Iteration over strings

[Stefan Behnel]

> Robert Dailey wrote:
>> I have the following code:
>>
>> str = "C:/somepath/folder/file.txt"
>>
>> for char in str:
>>     if char == "\\":
>>         char = "/"
>>
>> The above doesn't modify the variable 'str' directly. I'm still pretty new
>> to Python so if someone could explain to me why this isn't working and what
>> I can do to achieve the same effect I would greatly appreciate it.

I assume what you are actually looking for is the os.path module.

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-os.path.html

Especially the normpath() function should be of interest.

Stefan