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Asked: 2026-06-14T17:35:56+00:00

I am using a file containing brackets in Windows, which requires quotes in external

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I am using a file containing brackets in Windows, which requires quotes in external processes.

I am trying to manipulate the location, but as the string is being passed with the quotes, when I use os.path.split, the double quotes are also being split. Is there a better way to do this so that I don’t need to do checks on the input string and strip and/or replace the double quotes? I will be joining the filename to a new path that doesn’t have double quotes.

fileWithPath = r'"C:\TEMP\my(file).txt"'
... do some stuff ...
sourcepath, filename = os.path.split(fileWithPath)

sourcepath has value: ‘”C:\TEMP’

filename has value: ‘my(file).txt”‘

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  1. Editorial Team

    The first thing that comes to mind is to nuke the double-quotes that windows gives you:

    firsWithPath = fileWithPath.replace('"', '')

    But if you want to preserve some quotes and nuke only one ones on the ends, then you’re better off with:

    firsWithPath = fileWithPath.strip('"')

    After either of these operations, splitting on '\\' should work just fine

    EDIT:

    As @jdi mentions in the comments, you really should split on os.path.sep instead of '\\' for portability

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