remove whitespace from directory path

[fahadqureshi]

i am trying to get a user input and use that input as part of a directory path. i have tried many way of doing this but cant get rid of the space.

accfile1 = raw_input("Enter file name:")
print "C:\Fahad\ACC\Output\ ".replace(' ', ''),accfile1

My output looks like this
C:\Fahad\ACC\Ou tput\ test.txt

notice the white space before test.txt. I want it to look like this
C:\Fahad\ACC\Ou tput\test.txt

I have tried the replace method as shown and a couple other methods i found online but the annoying white space wont go away.

any help would be greatly appreciated

[bvdet]

The problem is not the space, but the backslash character (\). It is used to escape special characters such as newlines and tabs. Example:

>>> print 'abc\test\Bxxx\n1234'
abc	est\Bxxx
1234
>>> print 'abc\\test\\Bxxx\\n1234'
abc\test\Bxxx\n1234
>>>

For a literal backslash, escape it with "\\" or input forward slashes.

-BV

[fahadqureshi]

what if i was trying to use the string as a path name. is it even possible to store a pathname as a string. for example if i wanted to assign C:\fahad\test.t xt as a string and then call on it.

an overall picture of what i am trying to do is ask the user for a file name at which the user will enter for example "test.txt" . it may not be .txt everytime could be other file names whatever the user enters.

now i want to use what the user entered as part of the pathname and store the entire pathname in one variable.

accfile = raw_input("Enter file name: ")
path =  str("C:\Fahad\ACC\Output\\"), accfile
print path

so if the user enters test.txt as the raw input

the output is coming out as: ('C:\\Fahad\\AC C\\Output\\', 'test.txt')
instead i need it to come out clean as "C:\Fahad\ACC\O utput\test.txt"

it looks like whats after the comma is being considered as separate string wheras i want it to be part of the original string.

[bvdet]

The strings must use "\\" or "/" to represent a valid path. Try using os.path.join() or string method join(). Example:

>>> import os
>>> dir_path = "C:\\Fahad\\ACC\\Output"
>>> accfile = raw_input("Enter file name: ")
>>> print accfile
test.txt
>>> os.path.join(dir_path, accfile)
'C:\\Fahad\\ACC\\Output\\test.txt'
>>> print os.path.join(dir_path, accfile)
C:\Fahad\ACC\Output\test.txt
>>> dir_path = "C:/Fahad/ACC/Output"
>>> '/'.join([dir_path, accfile])
'C:/Fahad/ACC/Output/test.txt'
>>>

[fahadqureshi]

Thanks a bunch

Thanks a lot man it worked, you are incredible at this.

[bvdet]

You are welcome. Keep posting.

-BV