[Tutor] Files and file attributes

Ibraheem Umaru-Mohammed ibraheem@micromuse.com
Thu, 22 Feb 2001 14:48:48 +0000


> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 10:42:38AM +0100, Remco Gerlich wrote:
> | On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 07:46:14PM -0500, D-Man wrote:
> | I repeat my favorite solution, as I see everybody else omits it :)
> | 
> | f = open("c:/tmp/testfile","r+")
> | 
> | Windows is perfectly ok with forward slashes. They keep it a bit of a secret
> | though...

is this a "Windows" feature or a Python induced platform specific translation?
I thought forward slashes were used for something like environmental
variables or something. ???

Kindest regards,

	--ibs.

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