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Thank you, worked perfectly. <br />
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What is the r for?
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Thank you, worked perfectly.

What is the r for?

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if you don't use the r you had to escape every backslash which is quite tedious<br />
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example:<br />

<pre><code id="code-20-40813107-1">r&quot;\\192.168.1.1\d$\testfolder&quot;</code></pre>
is equivalent to<br />

<pre><code id="code-20-40813107-2">&quot;\\\\192.168.1.1\\d$\\testfolder&quot;</code></pre>
which is less readable and more error prone<br />
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There is only one exection (in which I fell immediately, when I heard first about the r prefix.<br />
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If the last character of a string is a \ , then you have still to escape it.<br />
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so <br />

<pre><code id="code-20-40813107-3">r&quot;c:\&quot;</code></pre>
is invalid<br />
you had to type<br />

<pre><code id="code-20-40813107-4">r&quot;C:\\&quot;</code></pre>
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if you don't use the r you had to escape every backslash which is quite tedious

example:


r"\\192.168.1.1\d$\testfolder"

is equivalent to


"\\\\192.168.1.1\\d$\\testfolder"

which is less readable and more error prone


There is only one exection (in which I fell immediately, when I heard first about the r prefix.

If the last character of a string is a \ , then you have still to escape it.

so


r"c:\"

is invalid
you had to type


r"C:\\"

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Thank you for the explanation. I also posted the following python question that you might be able to help.<br />
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<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28685907/Return-data-from-python-script-to-another-python-scrip.html" rel="ugc">Other python question</a>
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Thank you for the explanation. I also posted the following python question that you might be able to help.

Other python question [https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28685907/Return-data-from-python-script-to-another-python-scrip.html]

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For this question lets say the network share is \\192.168.1.1\d$\testfolde<wbr />r\<br />
preferred method: Would like to store all the file names in a python list\<br />
other option: Store all the file names to an output.txt file in c:\resultsfolder\<br />
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I am using python 3.4 due to getting the script to integrate with tkinter.
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For this question lets say the network share is \\192.168.1.1\d$\testfolder\
preferred method: Would like to store all the file names in a python list\
other option: Store all the file names to an output.txt file in c:\resultsfolder\

I am using python 3.4 due to getting the script to integrate with tkinter.

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