[Tutor] Defining a File path

[Hugo Arts]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Dave Angel <d at davea.name> wrote:
> On 01/10/2012 04:53 PM, Hugo Arts wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Adrian<kellyadrian at hotmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>> I know that if i dont include any path information, python looks in the
>>> current directory for the file. My question is how do i specify a file path
>>> to open a file saved on my desktop for example.
>>>
>>> Thanks all
>>>
>>> Adrian
>>>
>> Just write the path like you would anywhere else, there is nothing
>> special about how python handles this.
>>
>> # this is where my desktop is located on my windows 7 machine, but it
>> differs per operating system of course
>> f = open("C:\Users\hugo\Desktop\file.txt", 'r')
>>
> You'd want to do one of three things there:
>
> 1) use forward slashes
>                   "C:/Users/hugo/Desktop/file.txt"
>      which Windows will use happily for nearly every purpose.
>
> 2) use raw strings
>
>                  r"C:\Users\hugo\Desktop\file.txt"
>
> 3) or escape the backslashes:
>
>                    "C:\\Users\\hugo\\Desktop\\file.txt"
>

whoops. think before you type. Thanks for the correction