error in os.chdir
Sharan Basappa
sharan.basappa at gmail.com
Sat Jun 30 08:46:59 EDT 2018
On Saturday, 30 June 2018 18:05:02 UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 04:47:44 -0700, Sharan Basappa wrote:
>
> >> The quick fix:
> >>
> >> put an r in front of the directory string: r'...'
> >
> > thanks. That works
>
> Please don't do that. It's the wrong solution -- all you are doing is
> postponing failure. It will *seem* to work, until one day you will write
> something like this:
>
> directory = r'D:\directory\'
>
> and you will get a mysterious failure. Chris gave you the right solution:
> use forward slashes instead of backslashes for all paths.
>
> os.chdir('D:/Projects/Initiatives/machine learning/programs')
>
>
>
>
> --
> Steven D'Aprano
> "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing
> it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson
alright. I will do that but still I don't have an answer why I got the error in the first place.
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