os.system, backslash and commandline problem

[Fredrik Lundh]

Sharriff.Aina at med-iq.de wrote:

> I tried out a file that had "dangerous" characters:
> c:\the\boy.txt ("\t" TAB, "\b" BELL)

>>> print "c:\the\boy.txt"
c:      hoy.txt
>>> print "c:\\the\\boy.txt"
c:\the\boy.txt

> This is very saddening, any clues? help?

for more info, read up on "string literals" in your favourite
Python book, e.g:

    http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/strings.html

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