[Tutor] cannot find html file, in the same dir as python file

[Alan Gauld]

On 06/09/16 03:18, monikajg at netzero.net wrote:
> I put 
>
> print( os.getcwd() )
>
> into my script, and got 
>
> C:\Users\Monika\Documents\PythonWeb\class3code\class3code

Is that the directory you expected? Is it where your html file lives?

> So I put into my script:
>
> base_url = 'C:\Users\Monika\Documents\PythonWeb\class3code\class3code\button.html' instead of base_url = 'button.html'
> and ran it andI got a popup message in python:
>
> (unicode error) 'unicodesscape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3; truncated  \UXXXXXXXXescape

Because you are using a single backslash Python sees the \U as a Unicode
indicator. Either change the backslashes to forward slashes or put an 'r'
in front of the string to make it raw:

base_url = r'C:\Users\Monika\Documents\.....'


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