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On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:13 PM,  <jkuplinsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> (2) print() sounds nice, but fact is , no matter what I try, i always get=
 C:\\apps instead of c:\apps. So in this sense print() doesn't help much. O=
bviously i'm doing something wrong -- which is what you perhaps call shotgu=
n debugging; but that's why i'm asking.
>

Actually, that means it's helping a lot: it's showing you that, no
matter what you fiddle with in terms of string literals, the resulting
string is exactly the same. That's the point of printing stuff out :)

ChrisA