Re: [Tutor] Arrgh! Paths on windows!

[Magnus Lycka]

The way it looks in your mail: with a line break after "Local",
there is certainly EndOfLine in a single-quoted string. I get
that error just as I expect. If I put the whole path on one line,
I get just the normalized path I expect.

Python is (quite deliberately) picky on whitespace handling,
but all languages I know of are picky about linebreaks in strings.

If you want to split the long string to fit in fewer columns,
you need to quote each segment separately.

>>> tmp = os.path.normpath("c:/Documents and Settings/"
                           "Joe Blow/Local "
                           "Settings/Temporary Internet Files")

Be careful to preserve the whitespaces as well. "Local " != "Local"

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Skickat: 2004-02-24  16:54:25
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Ämne: [Tutor] Arrgh! Paths on windows!


> What is wrong with the following lines of code?
> 
> import os
> 
> tmp = os.path.normpath("c:/Documents and Settings/Joe Blow/Local
> Settings/Temporary Internet Files")
> 
> It SHOULD create a path properly formatted for windows in the variable 
> tmp.  But I get this error whenever I run it:
> 
> SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string
> 
> Can anyone help me with this?
> 
> 
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