problems with opening files due to file's path

[Alexnb]

Haha, okay well sorry that I was being so stupid, but I get it now and I
apoligize for causing you all the frustration. But I did get it to work
finally. 


Carsten Haese-2 wrote:
> 
> Alexnb wrote:
>> I don't get why yall are being so rude about this.
> 
> We're frustrated with your apparent inability to understand anything 
> we're saying.
> 
>> My problem is this; the
>> path, as a variable conflicts with other characters in the path, creating
>> escape characters I don't want, so I need a way to send the string to the
>> os.startfile() in raw, or, with all the backslashes doubled.
> 
> No, no, no, no, NO! That is not your problem! You are drawing unfounded 
> conclusions from the fact that you had to double up backslashes when the 
> filename came from a string literal. The situation is entirely different 
> when the filename comes from user input. No doubling up of backslashes 
> is necessary when the filename comes from user input. TRUST ME!
> 
> For simplicity, start with this code to convince yourself:
> 
> import os
> filename = raw_input("Please enter a filename: ")
> os.startfile(filename)
> 
> Once you get that to work, replace raw_input with a function that gets 
> the filename from your GUI.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
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> Carsten Haese
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> 

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