Re: Well that was fun. A NULL in a directory name?

Post #353,837 by mvitale 1/31/12 3:48:32 PM Reply	Re: Well that was fun. A NULL in a directory name? I know nothing about Python, but have you tried: `>>> myDataDir = "c:\\data\\00-LatestData"` Hell, I don't even know if that's legal. -Mike "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
Post #353,843 by scoenye 1/31/12 7:28:49 PM 1/31/12 7:30:19 PM Reply	What Mike said... Actually, \0 is the null. Mike's suggestion is correct, but also take a look at the os.path module to avoid the pain. FWIW, the board doesn't like it either :-/ I had to escape the backslash or it shows as "0". Edited by scoenye Jan. 31, 2012, 07:30:19 PM EST Expand All History
Post #353,846 by Another Scott 1/31/12 7:54:29 PM Reply	Thanks for the correction. There's an awful lot of stuff in the python standard library! :-) I too found that you can do "\\" and "\0" here - you just have to double the number of backslashes you want to be visible. Apparently this "null in a string" issue is something that python web programmers have to think about - http://lucumr.pocoo....as-web-developer/ Thanks. Cheers, Scott.
Post #353,850 by malraux 1/31/12 8:16:35 PM Reply	Backslashes are for escaping things Including backslashes. Working as designed. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #353,844 by Another Scott 1/31/12 7:44:51 PM Reply	It's an easy fix. There's likely a way to escape the backslash, but I just did a substitution. testing inside the Python shell (omitting earlier steps): >>>myDataDir = myDataDir.replace("\\", "/") # escape the backslash in the command >>>os.chdir(myDataDir) Easy, peasy. Your solution works, too: >>> myDataDir = "c:\\data\\00-LatestData" >>> os.chdir(myDataDir) >>> print os.getcwd() c:\data\00-LatestData >>> There may even a 'os' method to give the 'myDataDir' already pre-escaped; no doubt this has come up before... But I learned some things with my adventures today, so it's all good. Thanks. Cheers, Scott.

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