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Re: Find if a file existing within 1000s of folder/sub-folder - each file has a unique presence

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On 21/05/2015 15:14, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2015-05-21, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> 
>> import glob
>> print(glob.glob("c:/abc/def/ghjmain/features/XYZ/*<filename>"))
>>
>> Don't use backslashes \ as they have special meaning to Python. Use forward 
>> slashes and let Python convert them as needed.
> 
> Interesting. I've never heard about this.
> 
> When will Python convert them?
> 

It doesn't: Python passes them on unchanged and Windows accepts them in
all but a few cases.

(Although if any stdlib function were to call, eg, os.path.abspath on a
path before passing it along to Windows then one effect is that the path
is "normalised", ending up with backslashes. So perhaps that does happen
in modules like shutil. Not sure).


TJG

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  Re: Find if a file existing within 1000s of folder/sub-folder - each file has a unique presence Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-05-21 18:07 +1000
    Re: Find if a file existing within 1000s of folder/sub-folder - each file has a unique presence Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-05-21 10:54 +0200
    Re: Find if a file existing within 1000s of folder/sub-folder - each file has a unique presence Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2015-05-21 10:06 +0100
    Re: Find if a file existing within 1000s of folder/sub-folder - each file has a unique presence Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-05-21 14:14 +0000
      Re: Find if a file existing within 1000s of folder/sub-folder - each file has a unique presence Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-22 00:27 +1000
        Re: Find if a file existing within 1000s of folder/sub-folder - each file has a unique presence Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-05-21 16:31 +0000
          Re: Find if a file existing within 1000s of folder/sub-folder - each file has a unique presence MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-05-21 17:54 +0100
      Re: Find if a file existing within 1000s of folder/sub-folder - each file has a unique presence Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2015-05-21 15:32 +0100

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