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From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject: Re: os.path.isdir do not work for Foder named '2011-07-03'
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:51:09 -0400
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On 7/19/2011 2:15 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> Nulpum wrote:
>>> I want to make sure that folder exists.
>>>
>>> '2011-07-03' is really exists. but 'os.path.isdir' say false
>>>
>>> Does anyone know why?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>>>> print "logs/2011-07-03"
>> logs/2011-07-03
>>>>> print "logs\2011-07-03"
>> logs=EF=BF=BD1-07-03
>>
>> Don't use backslashes as path separators in Python. Backslashes are us=
ed
>> for string escapes.
>
> Besides that, and permission issues, ISTM that there are Unicode charac=
ters
> (at least non-ASCII characters) in the OP's path, which means they shou=
ld
> declare
>
> # encoding: utf-8

That is the default in Py3. Not sure of OP specified what he used.
>
> or something else fitting, and use
>
> os.path.isdir(u"C:/Users/=EC=A1=B0=EC=B0=BD=EC=A4=80/Desktop/logs/2011-=
07-03")
>

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Terry Jan Reedy