extra slashes in the network path for shutil.copy

[supuflounder]

Hi,
I'm trying to copy logs from a network drive.
There is a text file it holds all the Path\file lines for files copy, like this:

\\\\nhkBCN1376\\d$\\logs\\Nhk\\ServiceHostLog.1.xml
\\\\nhkBCN1376\\d$\\logs\\Nhk\\ServiceHostLog.2.xml
...
\\\\nhkBCN1376\\d$\\logs\\Nhk\\ServiceHostLog.203.xml

I read the file and each line becomes my 'source' string.
Then I build a 'destination' veriable :

"D:\\ServiceHostLog\\"+machine_Name+"\\"+machine_Name+".xml"

I print the 'source' and the 'destination' to make sure both Vars are ok.
And they look ok.
But when I run 'shutil.copy' it produces an error:

No such file or directory: '\\\\\\\\nhkBCN1376\\\\d$\\\\logs\\\\Nhk\\\\ServiceHostLog.1.xml'

I got extra slashes introduced into the 'source' string
I have never seen it before...
thank you.

If you meant to say \\nhkBCN1376...
why did you write \\\\nhkBCN1376...

The doubling of backslashes applies only to strings in your source code. If you read text from a file, it comes in verbatim.