Given is a variable that contains a windows file path. I have to then go and read this file. The problem here is that the path contains escape characters, and I can’t seem to get rid of it. I checked os.path and pathlib, but all expect the correct text formatting already, which I can’t seem to construct.
For example this. Please note that fPath is given, so I cant prefix it with r for a rawpath.
#this is given, I cant rawpath it with r fPath = "P:pythonttemp.txt" file = open(fPath, "r") for line in file: print (line)
How can I turn fPath via some function or method from:
"P:pythonttemp.txt"
to
"P:/python/t/temp.txt"
I’ve tried also tried .replace(“”,”/”), which doesnt work.
I’m using Python 3.7 for this.
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Answer
I’ve solved it.
The issues lies with the python interpreter. t and all the others don’t exist as such data, but are interpretations of nonprint characters.
So I got a bit lucky and someone else already faced the same problem and solved it with a hard brute-force method:
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/65211/
I just had to find it.
After that I have a raw string without escaped characters, and just need to run the simple replace() on it to get a workable path.