title: How to copy a file from a network share to local disk with variables?
body: <p>If I use the following line:</p>
  
  <pre><code>shutil.copyfile(r"\\mynetworkshare\myfile.txt","C:\TEMP\myfile.txt")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>everything works fine. However, what I can't seem to figure out is how to use a variable with the network share path, because I need the 'r' (relative?) flag.  The end result I would imagine would be something like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>source_path = "\\mynetworkshare"
  dest_path = "C:\TEMP"
  file_name = "\\myfile.txt"
  
  shutil.copyfile(r source_path + file_name,dest_path + file_name)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I have had no luck with different variations of this approach.</p>