doubling slashes in a string

[Grant Edwards]

In article <39de8a48_3 at corp.newsfeeds.com>, Joshua Muskovitz wrote:

>Man, I just have to say, I *love* python.  I was struggling with the problem
>of how to take a pathname and double all of the backslashes in it, so that
>(for example):
>
>c:\foo\bar\zingo.walla.walla --> c:\\foo\\bar\\zingo.walla.walla

I find it much easier to use forward slashes.

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