[Tutor] Arrgh! Paths on windows!

[vmonkey]

Thanks, your solution worked.  Is there a better way for me to do this 
in the future?

Magnus Lycka wrote:

>The way it looks in your mail: with a line break after "Local",
>there is certainly EndOfLine in a single-quoted string. I get
>that error just as I expect. If I put the whole path on one line,
>I get just the normalized path I expect.
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>Python is (quite deliberately) picky on whitespace handling,
>but all languages I know of are picky about linebreaks in strings.
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>If you want to split the long string to fit in fewer columns,
>you need to quote each segment separately.
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>>>>tmp = os.path.normpath("c:/Documents and Settings/"
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>                           "Joe Blow/Local "
>                           "Settings/Temporary Internet Files")
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>Be careful to preserve the whitespaces as well. "Local " != "Local"
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>Från: vmonkey <vmonkey at earthlink.net>
>Skickat: 2004-02-24  16:54:25
>Till: tutor at python.org
>Ämne: [Tutor] Arrgh! Paths on windows!
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>>What is wrong with the following lines of code?
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>>import os
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>>tmp = os.path.normpath("c:/Documents and Settings/Joe Blow/Local
>>Settings/Temporary Internet Files")
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>>It SHOULD create a path properly formatted for windows in the variable 
>>tmp.  But I get this error whenever I run it:
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>>SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string
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>>Can anyone help me with this?
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