On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 8:45 PM, Mats Wichmann wrote:
> Yeah, fun. You need to escape the \ that the idiot MS-DOS people chose
> for the file path separator. Because \ is treated as an escape character.
The COMMAND.COM shell inherited command-line switches (options) that
use slash from TOPS-10 b
On 03/31/2017 09:44 AM, Alex Kleider wrote:
> On 2017-03-30 13:45, Mats Wichmann wrote:
>
>>
>> Yeah, fun. You need to escape the \ that the idiot MS-DOS people chose
>> for the file path separator.
>
> I also believe that the "MS-DOS people" are making a poor choice
> but to call them idiots is
On 2017-03-30 13:45, Mats Wichmann wrote:
Yeah, fun. You need to escape the \ that the idiot MS-DOS people chose
for the file path separator.
I also believe that the "MS-DOS people" are making a poor choice
but to call them idiots is perhaps a bit strong.
Remember that for many the use of Mi
On 03/30/2017 11:02 AM, Rafael Knuth wrote:
> I can read files like this (relative path):
>
> with open("Testfile_B.txt") as file_object:
> contents = file_object.read()
> print(contents)
>
> But how do I read files if I want to specify the location (absolute path):
>
> file_path = "C:\U
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 8:47 PM, Zachary Ware
wrote:
> In this case, the problem is the bogus Unicode escape that you
> inadvertently included in your path: `\Us...`. To fix it, either use a
> 'raw' string (`r"C:\Users\..."`) or use forward slashes rather than
> backslashes, which Windows is happ
On Mar 30, 2017 15:07, "Rafael Knuth" wrote:
I can read files like this (relative path):
with open("Testfile_B.txt") as file_object:
contents = file_object.read()
print(contents)
But how do I read files if I want to specify the location (absolute path):
file_path = "C:\Users\Rafael\Tes
I can read files like this (relative path):
with open("Testfile_B.txt") as file_object:
contents = file_object.read()
print(contents)
But how do I read files if I want to specify the location (absolute path):
file_path = "C:\Users\Rafael\Testfile.txt"
with open(file_path) as file_object:
