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May 29th, 2007

combining strings with slash seperater

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str1 = 'c:\documents and settings\user\desktop'
str2 = 'starcraft.exe'
print str1
str1 = 'c:\documents and settings\user\desktop'
str2 = 'starcraft.exe'
print str1

I would like to know how it would be possible to add str2 to the end of str1 with a "\" inbetween the two strings. so that I end up with "c:\documents and settings\user\desktop\starcraft.exe".

Thanks

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May 29th, 2007

Re: combining strings with slash seperater

Hi!

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print "\\".join((str1, str2))
print "\\".join((str1, str2))

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print "%s\\%s" % (str1, str2)
print "%s\\%s" % (str1, str2)

If you want to make this os-independent, have a look at the os module (os.path.join might be your friend

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>>> str3 = str1 + '\\' + str2
>>> print str3
c:\documents and settings\user\desktop\starcraft.exe
>>>
>>> str3 = str1 + '\\' + str2
>>> print str3
c:\documents and settings\user\desktop\starcraft.exe
>>>

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Re: combining strings with slash seperater

Click to Expand / Collapse Quote originally posted by Matt Tacular ...

Python Syntax (Toggle Plain Text)
str1 = 'c:\documents and settings\user\desktop'
str2 = 'starcraft.exe'
print str1
str1 = 'c:\documents and settings\user\desktop' str2 = 'starcraft.exe' print str1
I would like to know how it would be possible to add str2 to the end of str1 with a "\" inbetween the two strings. so that I end up with "c:\documents and settings\user\desktop\starcraft.exe".

Thanks

one method i always use is the os.path.join() method.

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dir = os.path.join("C:\\","documents and settings","user","desktop")
starcraftpath = os.path.join(dir,"starcraft.exe")
dir = os.path.join("C:\\","documents and settings","user","desktop")
starcraftpath = os.path.join(dir,"starcraft.exe")

takes care of the slashes for you.

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