Python open of c:\ path Problem

[Fredrik Lundh]

Wayne Watson wrote:

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

"\" 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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