Problem with a tuple - newbie ignorance

Keith F. Woeltje kwoeltje at mail.mcg.edu
Tue Jan 16 18:30:29 EST 2001


Normal (forward) slashes won't however work in a command prompt window
in Win2000.
Does the python interpreter make the change "magically" (like it does
the end of line marker)?
>K

Grant Edwards wrote:

> Apparently.  Forward slashes have been accepted by MS
> "operating systems" since the very beginning, but I don't know
> how many times I've seen people (mostly in C programs) shooting
> themselves in the foot by trying to use backslashes instead.
> 
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