How do I escape forward slashes in python, so that open() sees my file as a filename to write, instead of a filepath to read?

Question

Let me preface this by saying I\'m not exactly sure what is happening with my code; I\'m fairly new to programming.

I\'ve been working on creating an i

Answer 1

Related to the title of the question, though not the specifics, if you really want your file names to include something that looks like a slash, you can use the unicode character "∕" (DIVISION SLASH), aka u'\u2215'.

This isn't useful in most circumstances (and could be confusing), but can be useful when the standard nomenclature for a concept you wish to include in a filename includes slashes.

Answer 2

you cannot have / in the file basename on unix or windows, you could replace / with .:

page.replace("/",".") + ".txt"

Python presumes /site etc.. is a directory.

Answer 3

On Unix/Mac OS, for the middle slashes, you can use : which will convert to / when viewed, but trigger the subfolders that / does.

site/sitename/class/final-code -> final-code file in a class folder in a sitename folder in a site folder in the current folder site:sitename:class:final-code -> site/sitename/class/final-code file in the current folder.