On 2/19/2023 1:53 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 at 03:41, Azizbek Khamdamov <[email protected]> wrote:Example 1 (works as expected) file = open("D:\Programming\Python\working_with_files\cities.txt", 'r+') ## contains list citiesSide note: You happened to get lucky with P, w, and c, but for the future, I recommend using forward slashes for your paths: open("D:/Programming/Python/working_with_files/cities.txt", "r+") Otherwise, you may run into annoying and hard-to-solve problems. Or alternatively, you'll upgrade to a newer Python and start getting warnings, which would at least tell you that there's a problem.
Or use r'...' strings. If you are copying a path to clipboard from Windows Explorer - a fairly common operation - it's much easier to prepend the "r" than to change all the backslashes to forward slashes.
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