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('\\','/')  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?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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/  >>