os.path.normpath question

[Peter Otten]

Bart wrote:

> I'm using this and ran across backslash issues in one of my paths.
> 
>      archpath = os.path.normpath('E:\foo\FTP\HLS\archive')
> 
> was translating to:
> 
>      E:\lsfprod\law\uch_interfaces\FTP\HLSrchive
> 
> which caused me to start using the 'raw' declaration before the path
> string like this:
> 
>      archpath = os.path.normpath(r'E:\foo\FTP\HLS\archive')
> 
> Is this the right way to use this?

Yes, but os.path.normpath() has nothing to with it. It's just how Python 
translates any string literal to a string object, see

http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-literals

Peter