On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 2:26 AM, <breamoreboy at gmail.com> wrote: > I find this:- > > s = r"ffmpeg -i '\\server-01\D\SER_Bigl.mpg' " > > vastly superior. It's semantically different though. I don't know whether single quotes are valid in that context, on Windows. ChrisA