open() error ---- what am I missing?

[Delaney, Timothy]

> >  In other words it was another case of: r"use raw strings for 
> >  filename literals under Win Python!"
> 
> Possibly another case of: """
> 
> In general, if you absolutely *must* hard-code filename literals in
> Python scripts, don't use "\\name" (for example) or even r"\name", use
> "/name"; the Windows API happily supports it.
> 
> """

Or best of all, use os.path.normath('/name') to be absolutely certain ...

Tim Delaney