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Shivkumar kondi
Shivkumar kondi

Reputation: 6762

How to add \\ in string with python

I want to get a path location as ' \\BIWDB02\e$\research' using os.join.path

I tried these ways

 import os
 a = 'BIWDB02'
 b = 'e$\research'
 c = '\\\\'
 print c
    # \\

Try-1:

x = os.path.join('\\','\\',a,b)
print x

output: 

 \BIWDB02\e$
    esearch

Don't know why it is coming on next line and even 'r' is missing.

Try-2 ,3

y = os.path.join('\\\\',a,b)
print y

z= os.path.join(c,a,b)
print z

Error:

IndexError: string index out of range

Update: 

os.path.join('\\\\\\',a,b)
#\\\BIWDB02\e$\research

with 6-\\\ it gives me 3-\\ but with 4-\\ it gives me indexError again.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 99

Answers (2)

Wondercricket
Wondercricket

Reputation: 7872

The issue is coming from the \r in e$\research. \r is know as a carriage return and performs a return newline.

Add r to e$\research to make it a raw string literals

import os
a = 'BIWDB02'
b = r'e$\research'
c = '\\\\'
x = os.path.join(c, a, b)
print x

>>> \\BIWDB02\e$\research

Upvotes: 5

athul.sure
athul.sure

Reputation: 328

You don't have to manually escape your path names. You can cast them as raw strings in Python 2.x as follows:

"Path with lots of tricky characte\rs.\n..durr".encode('string-escape')

Upvotes: 0

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