Re: [Tutor] raw string - solution to open_new() problem

> webbrowser.open_new(r"file://C:\__Library\folders\02394 Yale Style > Manual\02394 Yale_Style_Manual.htm") > > does. > > Thank you Ewald, for triggering the solution in my mind! > > Now, if anyone can explain why webbrowser.open_new() does the > character substitution thing it was doing (and th

Re: [Tutor] raw string - solution to open_new() problem

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Tom Cloyd wrote: > So, thie > > webbrowser.open_new("file://C:\__Library\folders\02394 Yale Style > Manual\02394 Yale_Style_Manual.htm") > > does not work, but this > > webbrowser.open_new(r"file://C:\__Library\folders\02394 Yale Style > Manual\02394 Yale_Style_Manual.ht

[Tutor] raw string - solution to open_new() problem

Ewald Ertl's reply to Don Parris's question about "r" operator gave me the idea of trying that out to solve my problem with file name scrambling when trying to use webbrowser.open_new() to open a file on my computer in a browser. It worked! So, thie webbrowser.open_new("file://C:\__Library\