[Zope] Double backslashes in IE

[Chris Beaven]

Perhaps the problem is that IE returns the entire file location rather 
than just the file name.

findslash = filename.rfind('\\')
if findslash != -1:
    filename = filename[findslash+1:]
return filename

Horak, Karl wrote:

>Thanks for the suggestion.  Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to solve the
>underlying problem.  Still getting a key error for <dtml-var
>expr="_.getitem(stripDs(file.filename))"> where stripDs is a script
>(Python)
>that returns string.replace(x, '\\\\', '\\').  Perhaps the Zope error
>page
>is escaping the \'s in the filename, thus creating the \\'s that I see.
>BTW, on my office computer the Zope error page displays the key error
>with
>the message C:\CSF\BUS581\581F203H1BJS.doc (no single quotes, no double
>slashes).  
>
>So I'm back to the core problem of why IE has trouble with <dtml-var
>expr="_.getitem(file.filename)"> when all the other browsers don't.  
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Beaven [mailto:chris at d-designz.co.nz] 
>Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 4:09 PM
>To: Horak, Karl
>Subject: Re: [Zope] Double backslashes in IE
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>
>Karl, even with raw strings the last character can not be a \.
>string.replace(x, '\\\\', '\\') should work better
>
>Horak, Karl wrote:
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>>Following up on my problem with getting errors in the expression
>>_.getitem(file.filename) when using IE, I've learned that IE "sees" the
>>filename as something like 'C:\\CSF\\BUS581\\581F203H1BJS.doc'.  The
>>double
>>backslashes are making it an invalid filename.  
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>>I've put on my Python thinking cap, figuring I can write a script that
>>takes
>>care of that.  But string.replace(x, r"\\", r"\") doesn't work.  The
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>raw
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>>single slash escapes the final double quote and gives an error.  
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>>Any suggestions?
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