Two problems with backslashes

[Alex Martelli]

"Gustaf Liljegren" <gustafl at algonet.se> wrote in message
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> I have two problems with backslashes in DOS path strings:
>
> >>> path = 'e:\test\test.txt'

That's e, colon, tab, e, s, tab, e ... each \t is
an escape sequence representing a tab.  You'll need
to double the backslashes or use a rawstring...

> >>> paths = 'e:\test\file1.txt e:\test\file2.txt'

The \f's are form-feeds, I believe.  As above...


Alex