coding problem, help needed

[Erik Max Francis]

Guy Van Rentergem wrote:

> line=inffile.readline()

Note that the line returned by File.readline will return a trailing
newline.

> L1=string.split(line,',')
> path=L1[0]
> value1=L2[1]
> 
> .....
> 
> The values are ok but path is something like 'c:\\w'

I submit you're doing something else wrong along the way; this should
work fine (provided the path doesn't contain any commas, obviously).

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