Kent Johnson wrote: > 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'
While I don't use Windows myself, I'm believe that you can also use
forward-slashes as the path separator, e.g.:
junkfile = open('c:/tmp/junkpythonfile','w')
(Pardon me if I'm completely wrong.)
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