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[Peter Otten]

 jaeltong at yahoo.co.uk wrote:

> Wow, that is fast. Thanks.
> 
>> In your code, you should use string literals like
>>
>> my_path = r"C:\Programs\Python\new"
>> my_path = "C:\\Programs\\Python\\new"
>>
>> But you said "a program to retrieve the filepath" - and I understand that
>> you dont have a string literal, and you compute it somehow. Escape
>> characters should not be a problem then. Have you verified the contents
>> of the text file? With notepad?
> 
> I meant, I used a GUI-Tkinter Script to retrieve the input(the
> directory). my program is supposed to
> 1. get the directory from the GUI Script,
>      with my_path= FieldValue.insert(n, variable.get())
> 2. open a text file
> 3. and edit a filepath in the file,
> 4 then saving as another new file...
> 
> if that is the case, how should I do, in order to get the input in the
> correct format??

The user can input literals like "...\t..." via the GUI, and Python will
interpret the sequence "\t" as a backslash followed by the letter t. If you
want to allow the user to use forward slashes, too, apply
os.path.normpath():

... os.path.normpath(variable.get()) ...

Peter