Pasting filenames into editor

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Is there a good way to paste file and path names? I have always been copying from Windows explorer via "Copy as path", pasting into Wing and adding an 'r'.

E.g.

r"C:\Program Files\Wing Pro 11\bin\wing.exe"

This is awkward and has e.g. problems when you have a path like "...\U...". Is there a keyboard shortcut or e.g. a modifier key to drag a file to an editor window to insert the path with double backslashes? Alternatively, is there a Wing script?

There's no paste-filename sort of command or script that I know of, but I'm not seeing how typing r"|" and pasting a filename into there at the | would ever be a problem. \U in a raw string is \U, right?

>>> x = r'\Test\Use'
>>> print(x)
\Test\Use

Not sure if I'm misunderstanding something...

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answered 2026-06-24 00:29:17 +0000

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Yes, you're right. ISTR there were these problems, but probably only with old Python versions. I will make the switch to r-strings. Only a backslash at the end of an r-string is still odd.

Dietmar Schwertberger (2026-06-25 20:20:20 +0000) edit

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