Re: Python open of c:\ path Problem

[Fredrik Lundh]

Wayne Watson wrote:

Python doesn't like this:
>
junkfile = open('c:\tmp\ju nkpythonfile',' w')
>
I get
junkfile = open('c:\tmp\ju nkpythonfile',' w')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'c:\tmp\\junkpy thonfile'

"\" is used as an escape character in string literals, so "\t" doesn't
mean what you think it does. see

http://docs.python.org/ref/strings.html

for details.

to work around this, use double backslashes ("foo\\bar") , raw strings
(r"foo\bar"), or, usually easiest, forward slashes ("foo/bar").

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