On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Wayne Watson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Python doesn't like this:
>
> junkfile = open('c:\tmp\junkpythonfile','w')
>
> I get
> junkfile = open('c:\tmp\junkpythonfile','w')
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'c:\tmp\\junkpythonfile'
The \ character is a special 'escape' character that is used to insert
non-printing characters into a string. \t represents a single tab
character, not the two characters \ and t.
To put an actual backslash into a string, you can either double it:
'c:\\tmp\\junkpythonfile'
or prefix the string with r to make a 'raw' string, which doesn't have
any special meaning for \:
r'c:\tmp\junkpythonfile'
Kent
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