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Re: Regex for re.match not working as expected.

Oct 10th, 2008

If the file name is a variable returned from some source:

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>>> s = "c:\test.doc"
>>> s1 = repr(s).strip("'")
>>> s1
'c:\\test.doc'
>>>
>>> s = "c:\test.doc"
>>> s1 = repr(s).strip("'")
>>> s1
'c:\\test.doc'
>>>