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Neil Cerutti neilc at norwich.edu
Tue Aug 17 11:36:57 EDT 2010 
On 2010-08-17, Stefan Schwarzer <sschwarzer at sschwarzer.net> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> On 2010-08-16 18:44, Alex van der Spek wrote:
>> Anybody catches any other ways to improve my program (attached), you are 
>> most welcome. Help me learn, that is one of the objectives of this 
>> newsgroup, right? Or is it all about exchanging the next to impossible 
>> solution to the never to happen unreal world problems?
>
> I don't know what a concordance table is, and I haven't
> looked a lot into your program, but anyway here are some
> things I noticed at a glance:
>
>| #! usr/bin/env python
>| # Merge log files to autolog file
>| import os
>| import fileinput
>| #top='C:\\Documents and Settings\\avanderspek\\My Documents\\CiDRAdata\\Syncrude\\CSL\\August2010'
>| top='C:\\Users\\ZDoor\\Documents\\CiDRA\\Syncrude\CSL\\August2010'
>
> If you have backslashes in strings, you might want to use "raw
> strings". Instead of "c:\\Users\\ZDoor" you'd write
> r"c:\Users\ZDoor" (notice the r in front of the string).

That's good general advice. But in the specific case of file
paths, using '/' as the separator is supported, and somewhat
preferable.

-- 
Neil Cerutti
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