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Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of ©

Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Date 2013-09-01 21:20 -0700
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Subject Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of ©
From materile11@gmail.com

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El domingo, 1 de septiembre de 2013 19:34:16 UTC-5, Tim Chase  escribió:
> On 2013-09-01 17:03, materile11@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > Hello everybody
> 
> > I'm trying to run this: 
> 
> > 
> 
> > <code>
> 
> > >>> a = 'E:\Dropbox\jjfsdjjsdklfj\sdfjksdfkjslkj\flute.wav'
> 
> > >>> a.split('\')
> 
> > 
> 
> > SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal
> 
> > </code>
> 
> > 
> 
> > I think that the character '\' is the problem, but unfortunately
> 
> > I'm developing a small app for windows and I need to show only the
> 
> > name of the .wav file, in this case 'flute.wav'.
> 
> 
> 
> To directly answer your question, you need to escape the "\" so it's
> 
> 
> 
>   a.split('\\')
> 
> 
> 
> That said, it's far better to use Python's built-ins to do the
> 
> processing for you:
> 
> 
> 
>   >>> import os
> 
>   >>> print os.path.basename(a)
> 
>   flute.wav
> 
> 
> 
> which does what you want *and* works cross-platform:
> 
> 
> 
>   [on Linux]
> 
>   >>> a = '/home/tkc/path/to/flute.wav'
> 
>   >>> print os.path.basename(a)
> 
>   flute.wav
> 
> 
> 
> > I also want to know how to mirror a character, in my case this one
> 
> > ©, because I'll use the Copyleft
> 
> 
> 
> This can't be done in much of a general way:  Unicode doesn't specify
> 
> this character, and the URL you provided suggests combining two
> 
> Unicode characters to get ↄ⃝  Unfortunately, (1) it requires a
> 
> display that knows how to produce that, which many terminals can't;
> 
> and (2) it's purely visual, not semantic.  If that's what you really
> 
> want, you should be able to use:
> 
> 
> 
>   copyleft_symbol = u"\u2184\u20DD"
> 
> 
> 
> Just be aware that it may not always display the way you expect it to.
> 
> 
> 
> -tkc


Thank you, I've used the os.path.basename to solve my problem.
Regards.

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How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of © materile11@gmail.com - 2013-09-01 17:03 -0700
  Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of © Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2013-09-02 10:23 +1000
  Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of © Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-09-01 19:34 -0500
    Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of © materile11@gmail.com - 2013-09-01 21:20 -0700
  Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of © Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-09-01 19:40 -0500
  Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of © Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2013-09-01 19:40 -0700
    Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of © Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-09-02 13:22 -0700
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            Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of © random832@fastmail.us - 2013-09-06 09:29 -0400
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