Sander Sweers <sander.sweers <at> gmail.com> writes: Hello Sander,
> > The r means the string is a raw string. > > The real issue is what Alan pointed out. The backlash is an escape > character and if you want to use it in a string should be escaped by a > backlash.Using a raw string will give the same result as 'C:\\Program > Files\\Editra\\Editra.exe' > > Greets > Sander OK. I understand. What surprises me is that before calling the subprocess.Popen() method, I normalized the path using: filename = os.path.normpath(filename). Consequently, I thought the path was corrected from the backslash problems. Anyway, Thank you very much for your help. Dominique _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor