How to get my path written with back slashes instead of forward slashes?-CodePudding

I hope someone can help as I am stuck, I can't find the answer to this problem anywhere on google.

I need to replace my forward slash path with a backslash path in order for it to work with windows command prompt. Forward slash paths work for local folders, i.e. C:/Users/Lorcan - but not network folders, i.e. //Networkfolder/Storage

I learned that you can't use the backslash in python as it is a special character, so you must use two backslashes. However, this causes my path to have too many backslashes, and command prompt doesn't work.

>>> s = '//Networkfolder/Storage/Myfolder/Myfile'
>>> s2 = s.replace('/','\\')
>>> s2
'\\\\Networkfolder\\Storage\\Myfolder\\Myfile'

CodePudding user response：

In the python shell, backslashes are displayed as \\, but it's really \ in the string. Your code is working fine, the real string is correct, it's being displayed like that.

CodePudding user response：

You can print out your current working directory instead of writing it out:

import os

cwd = str(os.getcwd())
x = cwd.replace("/", "\\")
print(x)

This worked for me, hope it does for you as well!