problem with join

[corynissen at gmail.com]

On Mar 7, 9:33 am, corynis... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Mar 7, 9:12 am, nodrogbrown <nodrogbr... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > hi
> > i am using python on WinXP..i have a string 'folder ' that i want to
> > join to a set of imagefile names to create complete qualified names so
> > that i can create objects out of them
>
> > folder='F:/brown/code/python/fgrp1'
> > filenms=['amber1.jpg', 'amber3.jpg', 'amy1.jpg', 'amy2.jpg']
> > filenameslist=[]
> > for x in filenms:
> >         myfile=join(folder,x)
> >         filenameslist.append(myfile)
>
> > now when i print the filenameslist  i find that it looks like
>
> > ['F:/brown/code/python/fgrp1\\amber1.jpg',
> > 'F:/brown/code/python/fgrp1\\amber3.jpg', 'F:/brown/code/python/fgrp1\
> > \amy1.jpg', 'F:/brown/code/python/fgrp1\\amy2.jpg']
>
> > is there some problem with the way i use join? why do i get \\ infront
> > of  the basename?
> > i would prefer it like 'F:/brown/code/python/fgrp1/basename.jpg',
>
> > can anyone pls help
> > gordon
>
> see path.join in the os library.

Upon further examination... it looks like you are using windows and
os.path.join.

The separator for windows is a '\'.  In python, you have to escape
that character with another '\'.  That's why you see '\\'.

That being said, I think what you have will still work to access a
file.  Windows is usually smart enough to deal with a front slash here
and there.