Python Convert Back Slashes to forward slashes
PythonReplacePython Problem Overview
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('\\','/')
dir = os.path.normpath(s)
dir = os.path.normcase(s)
In each scenario the output has been
C:folderAfolderB
I'm not sure what I am doing wrong, any suggestions?
Python Solutions
Solution 1 - Python
I recently found this and thought worth sharing:
import os
path = "C:\\temp\myFolder\example\\"
newPath = path.replace(os.sep, '/')
print newPath
Output:<< C:/temp/myFolder/example/ >>
Solution 2 - Python
Your specific problem is the order and escaping of your replace
arguments, should be
s.replace('\\', '/')
Then there's:
posixpath.join(*s.split('\\'))
Which on a *nix platform is equivalent to:
os.path.join(*s.split('\\'))
But don't rely on that on Windows because it will prefer the platform-specific separator. Also: > Note that on Windows, since there is a current directory for each > drive, os.path.join("c:", "foo") represents a path relative to the > current directory on drive C: (c:foo), not c:\foo.
Solution 3 - Python
Try
path = '/'.join(path.split('\\'))
Solution 4 - Python
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.
Solution 5 - Python
To define the path's variable you have to add r
initially, then add the replace statement .replace('\\', '/')
at the end.
for example:
In>> path2 = r'C:\Users\User\Documents\Project\Em2Lph\'.replace('\\', '/')
In>> path2
Out>> 'C:/Users/User/Documents/Project/Em2Lph/'
This solution requires no additional libraries
Solution 6 - Python
Sorry for being late to the party, but I wonder no one has suggested the pathlib-library.
pathlib is a module for "Object-oriented filesystem paths"
To convert from windows-style (backslash)-paths to forward-slashes (as typically for Posix-Paths) you can do so in a very verbose (AND platform-independant) fashion with pathlib:
import pathlib
pathlib.PureWindowsPath(r"C:\folderA\folderB").as_posix()
>>> 'C:/folderA/folderB'
Be aware that the example uses the string-literal "r" (to avoid having "\" as escape-char) In other cases the path should be quoted properly (with double backslashes) "C:\\folderA\\folderB"
Solution 7 - Python
How about :
import ntpath
import posixpath
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dir = posixpath.join(*ntpath.split(s))
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Solution 8 - Python
This can work also:
def slash_changer(directory):
if "\\" in directory:
return directory.replace(os.sep, '/')
else:
return directory
print(slash_changer(os.getcwd()))
Solution 9 - Python
this is the perfect solution put the letter 'r' before the string that you want to convert to avoid all special characters likes '\t' and '\f'... like the example below:
str= r"\test\hhd"
print("linux path:",str.replace("\\","\\\\"))
print("windows path:",str.replace("\\","/"))
result:
linux path: \\test\\hhd
windows path: /test/hhd