backslash problems

[blunte]

Howdy.

I'm having a really hard time dealing with backslashes in a win32 utility I'm making.

Here's a code snippet:

nextLetter = getNextAvailableLetter()
newdrive = "\\\\myserver\\myshare"
print "newdrive = [" + newdrive + "]"
system("cmd /c net use " + nextLetter + " " + newdrive)

The system call fails, and I believe it's because the drive text is getting messed up. I've tried using "\\myserver\myshare", re.escape(newdrive), raw(newdrive), and everything else I could imagine.

The print line always looks fine, either as \\\\ or \\ (depending on which I tried), but nothing works on the system call.

Interestingly enough, if I do the same thing in Python Interactive Shell, it works.
>>> blah = r'\\myserver\myshare'
>>> system("cmd /c net use e: " + blah)
The command completed successfully.

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Any suggestions?

Thanks much.

MT

 

[blunte]

Update... sometimes when things are particularly confusing, it's easy to overlook an obvious mistake.

My sample code would have worked if I had put a ":" after the nextLetter (ie, E: )

My problem is apparently solved now.