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Hi,
This is strange, I have extra slashes in a 'path'.
I do not understand how it could happen.
I have a Host list, I'm iterating over it and adding a "path" to each name,
I'm going to download files from later on.
The host list goes like this:

CM04TMMV0001EK
CM04TMMV0002EK

Code

lst = 'path/to/the/list.txt' 
with open (lst,'r') as lr :
    for itm in lr :
        itm=itm.strip()
        d_to_sacn =r"\\"+itm+"\c$\SBHI\Debug_Logs" 
        print ("whole string -- ",d_to_sacn)

here is a print out, I have a two extra lines at the bottom :
whole string -- \\CM04TMMV0001EK\c$\SBHI\Debug_Logs
whole string -- \\CM04TMMV0002EK\c$\SBHI\Debug_Logs
whole string -- \\\c$\SBHI\Debug_Logs
whole string -- \\\c$\SBHI\Debug_Logs

I believe host is "\\" in the last two lines.

Add repr() and you see all👀

lst = 'list.txt'
with open (lst, 'r') as lr:
    for itm in lr :
        itm = itm.strip()
        print(repr(itm))
        d_to_sacn = fr"\\{itm}\c$\SBHI\Debug_Logs"
        print (f"whole string -- {d_to_sacn}")

Output:
'CM04TMMV0001EK'
whole string -- \\CM04TMMV0001EK\c$\SBHI\Debug_Logs
'CM04TMMV0002EK'
whole string -- \\CM04TMMV0002EK\c$\SBHI\Debug_Logs

Adding one \ in last \CM04TMMV0002EK

Output:
'CM04TMMV0001EK'
whole string -- \\CM04TMMV0001EK\c$\SBHI\Debug_Logs
'\\CM04TMMV0002EK'
whole string -- \\\CM04TMMV0002EK\c$\SBHI\Debug_Logs

Thank you!