Construct raw strings?

[Terry Reedy]

"Thomas W" <thomas.weholt at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1126130881.555483.296200 at g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>I got a stupid problem; on my WinXP-box I want to scan the filesystem
> and enter a  path to scan like this :
>
> path_to_scan = 'd:\test_images'

I believe you can always use / instead of \ for Win filenames from Python. 
Avoids the \ problem.  I think only the shell that uses / for options has a 
problem with / in filenames, but Python calls directly to C.

Terry J. Reedy