Python Convert Back Slashes to forward slashes

Question

I am working in python and I need to convert this:

C:\\folderA\\folderB to C:/folderA/folderB

I have three approaches:

dir = s.replace(\'\\\\         


        

Answer 1

Path names are formatted differently in Windows. the solution is simple, suppose you have a path string like this:

data_file = "/Users/username/Downloads/PMLSdata/series.csv"

simply you have to change it to this: (adding r front of the path)

data_file = r"/Users/username/Downloads/PMLSdata/series.csv"

The modifier r before the string tells Python that this is a raw string. In raw strings, the backslash is interpreted literally, not as an escape character.