Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of ©
materile11 at gmail.com
materile11 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 2 00:20:43 EDT 2013
El domingo, 1 de septiembre de 2013 19:34:16 UTC-5, Tim Chase escribió:
> On 2013-09-01 17:03, materile11 at gmail.com wrote:
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> > Hello everybody
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> > I'm trying to run this:
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> >
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> > <code>
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> > >>> a = 'E:\Dropbox\jjfsdjjsdklfj\sdfjksdfkjslkj\flute.wav'
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> > >>> a.split('\')
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> >
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> > SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal
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> > </code>
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> >
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> > I think that the character '\' is the problem, but unfortunately
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> > I'm developing a small app for windows and I need to show only the
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> > name of the .wav file, in this case 'flute.wav'.
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>
>
> To directly answer your question, you need to escape the "\" so it's
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> a.split('\\')
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> That said, it's far better to use Python's built-ins to do the
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> processing for you:
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> >>> import os
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> >>> print os.path.basename(a)
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> flute.wav
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> which does what you want *and* works cross-platform:
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> [on Linux]
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> >>> a = '/home/tkc/path/to/flute.wav'
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> >>> print os.path.basename(a)
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> flute.wav
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> > I also want to know how to mirror a character, in my case this one
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> > ©, because I'll use the Copyleft
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> This can't be done in much of a general way: Unicode doesn't specify
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> this character, and the URL you provided suggests combining two
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> Unicode characters to get ↄ⃝ Unfortunately, (1) it requires a
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> display that knows how to produce that, which many terminals can't;
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> and (2) it's purely visual, not semantic. If that's what you really
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> want, you should be able to use:
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> copyleft_symbol = u"\u2184\u20DD"
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> Just be aware that it may not always display the way you expect it to.
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> -tkc
Thank you, I've used the os.path.basename to solve my problem.
Regards.
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