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titaniumdecoy · Sep 9th, 2006, 3:56 PM

You should use os.path.join for this task to make your code (more) portable.

You should also use a Popen object from the subprocess module rather than os.system for the same reason.

You could also, as a matter of preference, prepend your paths with r to create raw strings so that you don't have to escape backslashes (unless the last character in the string is a backslash, in which case it must be escaped).

Sep 9th, 2006, 3:56 PM	#5
titaniumdecoy Expert Programmer Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 856 Rep Power: 3	You should use os.path.join for this task to make your code (more) portable. You should also use a Popen object from the subprocess module rather than os.system for the same reason. You could also, as a matter of preference, prepend your paths with r to create raw strings so that you don't have to escape backslashes (unless the last character in the string is a backslash, in which case it must be escaped).