[Zope] Creating files on server

[Thomas B. Passin]

Probably, but the original example used a backslash and I wanted to point
out that it can have special properties.  You'd usually want to use relative
paths, anyway, instead of things like "c:\".

Cheers,

Tom P

marc lindahl wrote -

> Wouldn't you want to use os.path.join() to retain OS-independence??
>  e.g.  filename = os.path.join('c:\\', 'temp', 'testfile.txt')
>
> > From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@mitretek.org>

> > Remember, the '\' is an escape character in Python.  You need to double
it
> > when you embed it in a string, like so:
> >
> > filename='c:\\temp\\testfile.txt'
> >
> > Or you can use the raw string syntax:
> >
> > filename=r'c:\temp\testfile.txt'
> >
> > I don't know if a Zope Python script supports the raw syntax, but I
doubt if
> > it will let you write a file to the filesystem.  An external method is
no
> > doubt what you want.
> >