Python has a simple concatenation using the + operator. But I am observing something unusual.
I tried :
final_path = '/home/user/' + path + '/output'
Where path is a staring variable I want to concatenate.
print final_path
gives me:
/home/user/path
/output
Instead of /home/user/path/output
Why is going to the next line. Is the forward slash causing the issue. I tried using the escape character as well. but It does not work.
From the looks of your code, it may be the variable path that is the problem. Check to see if path has a new line at the end. Escape characters start with a backslash \ and not a forward slash /.
As victor said, your path variable has '\n' added at the end implicitly, so you can do such a trick to overcome the problem:
final_path = '/home/user/' + path.strip('\n') + '/output'
maybe it depends on which string is contained in the variable path. If it ends with a carriage return ('\n'), this could explain why string variable final_path is printed on 2 lines.
Regards.
This happens when path is from another file for example a .txt where you are importing the data. I solved this by adding path.strip() which removes whitespaces before the str and after for the newline which is being generated. Just add .strip() to your variable.
os.path.join(os.sep, 'home', 'user', path, 'output')pathfrom a file, that's your problem. Each line in the file includes the newline character. Just usepath.strip().