Newbie - help in opening and reading a file from >>>

[Dennis E. Hamilton]

>>> open('c:/autoexec.bat')
<open file 'c:/autoexec.bat', mode 'r' at 1b38ef0>

Yes.

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[mailto:python-list-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Grant Edwards
Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 19:52
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Subject: Re: Newbie - help in opening and reading a file from >>>


On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 21:17:37 GMT, Jerome Chan <eviltofu at rocketmail.com>
wrote:
>
>> I've just installed 1.5 on my Windows 98Se system
>> I'm trying to execute the following-
>> >>>f=open('C:\Autoexec.bat')
>> and I get a no such directory or file error
>> Is there some parameter or path that I must set?
>>  Would apprecaite any clues...
>
>You must escape the \?

Back in the bad old days, I always used forwards slashes when
programming under DOS for just this reason (it also made them
more portable when moving code between DOS, VMS, and Unix).
Does win32 still accept forwards slashes in pathnames the way
DOS used to?

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