New to Python.

[Scott F]

"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote in
news:mailman.126.1079617542.742.python-list at python.org: 

>> You really want to use double backslashes (\\) here or use a raw
>> string (r'...').  If not, this will eventually bite you.
> 
> Or forward slashes (/), which avoids the whole problem.
> 

for file() and similar, forward slashes are great, but try to spawn() 
something and a raw string works better.

SDF