Django paths in Windows

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I'm learning Django, so be gentle with me.

I have this code here, in my Settings.py-file:

STATICFILES_DIRS = (
        os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static"),
        )

print("STATICFILES_DIRS ", STATICFILES_DIRS[0] )
print("STATICFILES_DIRS ", STATICFILES_DIRS )

I don't understand the result, which is this:

STATICFILES_DIRS C:\path\to\static\folder
STATICFILES_DIRS ('C:\\path\\to\\static\\folder',)

Why do the double-backslashes appear, when I print the tuple? Is it because it's 'escaping-the-next-character'?

"I'm learning Django...". This question has got nothing to do with Django. — xyres
– xyres, Commented Aug 13, 2015 at 19:09
Xyres - please evaluate your answer. I'm setting this up in my Django-settings.py-file? How else should I address this? — Zeth
– Zeth, Commented Aug 15, 2015 at 18:37

Uvar · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-13 20:16:10Z

1

This probably is a manifold over duplicate question, but:

Python escaping routines. Python uses a backslash as standard escape in string representation. Which is exactly what happens here.

To give some easy (documented) examples:

Escape Sequence     Meaning 
\newline            Ignored
\\  Backslash       (\)
\'  Single quote    (')
\"  Double quote    (")

You can see the difference through an example like this:

>>> spam_eggs = '''spam
... eggs'''
>>> print spam_eggs
spam
eggs
>>> print repr(spam_eggs)
'spam\neggs'

answered Aug 13, 2015 at 20:16

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