[Tutor] Backslashes inside of variable

[Phoebus]

I am running Python 2.2 on Win2k.  I have a program which writes a 
filename, with backslashes to a file, along with other stuff.  I read 
the file in using readlines() and put each line into a variable.

My problem is I want to use the filename, but I can't use it because of 
the backslashes.  I know about doing open(r"d:\test\file.txt","w") or 
even open(`d:\test\file.txt`,"w"), but the filename is inside of a 
variable so when I do open(filename,'w'), I have problems.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Steve
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