open filename with spaces in path

[A.T.Hofkamp]

On 2008-05-07, Chris <cwitts at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> os.chdir('C:\temp\my test')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
> WindowsError: [Error 123] The filename, directory name, or volume
> label syntax is incorrect: 'C:\temp\\my test'

Python strings have \ escapes, such as \t, \n etc. Above you try to go to

C:<TAB>emp\my test

and you are lucky that \m is not something special.


Either escape your back slashes ("C:\\temp\\my test") or use raw strings
(r"C:\temp\my test").

Sincerely,
Albert