HTML "sanitizer" in Python

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 12:20:27 -0400, "Scott Stirling"
<SSTirlin at holnam.com> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:

> On opening files in Windows--I was hoping there was a way to give python the full file path.  Everything I have seen so far just tells me how to open a file if it's in the same directory I am running python from.
> 
> I don't have sed on my MS Windows PC at work.  This was part of the initial explanation--I am working for a company where we have DOS, Windows and Office 97.  No sed, no Unix.  This is a Y2K Project too, so we are on a budget with little leeway for new ideas that weren't included in the original statement of work and project plan.
> 
	Did you try?

	Actually, you might have gotten caught on the \ treatment.

> PythonWin 1.5 (#0, Dec 30 1997, 23:24:20) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
> Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
> Portions copyright 1994-1998 Mark Hammond (MHammond at skippinet.com.au)
> >>> fo = open("h:\temp\somefile.txt","w")
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
> IOError: (2, 'No such file or directory')
> >>> fo = open("h:/temp/somefile.txt", "w")
> >>> fo.write("This is a line of text\n")
> >>> fo.close()
> >>> 
> >>> fo=open("h:\\temp\\somefile.txt","r")
> >>> for ln in fo.readlines():
> ... 	 print ln
> ... 	
> This is a line of text
> 
> >>> fo.close()
> >>> 

	Note the use of reversed / on the first open, and the doubled \\
on the second.

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