Newbie need help

[Scott David Daniels]

Tony Ha wrote:
> ... instead of
>os.chdir("C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\PythonCardPrototype\tools")
>you need
>os.chdir("C:\\Python23\\Lib\\site-packages\\PythonCardPrototype\\tools\\codeEditor") 

> I also found out you can you u' raw string. i.e.
>  os.chdir(u'C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\PythonCardPrototype')
> this also work.
Nope, you just lucked out by using a different string.

the problem with using a backslash is that it normally an instruction to
the source translator to construct special characters.  Because your
previous directory name included tools, you had a sequence with a
backslash followed by a lower case t.  That is shorthand for a tab
(ASCII 9).  As Peter Hansen tells you in another note, you can use
an r directly before the string to tell the source translator to
"treat backslashes as regular characters."  So, you'll notice that,
for example, 'abc\tex' != r'abc\tex', but 'abc\Tex' == r'abc\Tex', 
because '\t' is the tab character, not '\T'.



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-Scott David Daniels
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