[Tutor] Python 3.4.1 question for Mac users

[Al Bull]

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From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+a.bull=pubdmgroup.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 11:40 AM
To: Richard Dillon
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Subject: Re: [Tutor] Python 3.4.1 question for Mac users

Sorry for the errorneous quote-only response, gmail managed to send it without me typing a thing.

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Richard Dillon <dillonrw at comcast.net> wrote:
>     infile = open(r'\OS\Users\richarddillon\Desktop\my_file','r')

On the Mac, you don’t need to specify a drive there; the main drive is just /.

Also, the path separator is a forward slash (/).  This also lets you remove the r in front of the string, which is needed for backslashes unless you escape them.  The corrected code is:

infile = open('/Users/richarddillon/Desktop/my_file', 'r')

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[Al Bull] 

Isn't he still mixing a string and a string variable is his open statement?   My_file is a string variable.   I'm still learning Python myself so I could very well be incorrect.. :)