Reading/Writing files

[Ethan Furman]

Dan Stromberg wrote:
> 
> Are you on windows?
> 
> You probably should use / as your directory separator in Python, not \.  
> In Python, and most other programming languages, \ starts an escape 
> sequence, so to introduce a literal \, you either need to prefix your 
> string with r (r"\foo\bar") or double your backslashes ("\\foo\\bar").
> 
> / works fine on windows, and doesn't require escaping ("/foo/bar").

Depends on your definition of 'fine'.

--> from glob import glob
--> from pprint import pprint as pp
--> pp(glob('c:/temp/*.pdf'))
['c:/temp\\choose_python.pdf',
  'c:/temp\\COA.pdf',
  'c:/temp\\job_setup.pdf']

Visually ugly, and a pain to compare files and paths.

~Ethan~