error in os.chdir
Karsten Hilbert
Karsten.Hilbert at gmx.net
Sat Jun 30 11:15:59 EDT 2018
On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 07:34:46AM -0700, Sharan Basappa wrote:
> sorry. I mean why my code worked in one case but did not in the other one.
>
> This worked - os.chdir('D:\Projects\Initiatives\machine learning\programs')
>
> This did not work - os.chdir('D:\Projects\Initiatives\machine learning\programs\assertion')
>
> only difference is, I added an additional directory in the problematic case.
The answer lies in the (inadvertant) use of escaping.
Which is the very reason _why_ forward slashes were favoured
over backward ones.
Karsten
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