Re: [Tutor] Question About chdir()

Let's see if I can get this right.as I am working on memory and not enough sleep. The 'r' means that using a raw string so the backslashes aren't escaped out The equivalent without using the 'r' would be: os.chdir('c:\\temp') --Todd On Monday 08 August 2005 03:07 am, Don Parris wrote:

Re: [Tutor] Question About chdir()

Hi Don! Don Parris wrote: > The book, "Programming Python", shows an example of os.chdir() on the > Windows platform, as follows: > > os.chdir(r'c:\temp') r ... raw Strings. There will no substitution be processed. Otherwise the "\t" ( Tab ) will be inserted in the string: >>> print "a\tb" a

[Tutor] Question About chdir()

The book, "Programming Python", shows an example of os.chdir() on the Windows platform, as follows: os.chdir(r'c:\temp') What's the 'r' for? It didn't seem to make any difference in how Python works - at least not on the surface. Thanks, Don -- DC Parris GNU Evangelist http://matheteuo.org/ [E