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escape single quote - deep_logic - Sep-10-2019
Hi all,
I'm trying to do a simple chdir in IDLE, 2.7.5.
os.chdir(r'\\hilltop3\users$\LongRandy\My Documents\HOW-TO\'S)I keep getting, "The system cannot find the path specified: "\\\\hilltop3\\users$\\LongRandy\\My Documents\\HOW-TO\\'s"
I did use the "\" single backslash just to try it and it does work if I'm just printing something.
Not sure what I'm getting wrong.
Any help is appreciated.
RE: escape single quote - SheeppOSU - Sep-10-2019
For this type of stuff, it's best to use os's path.join. Example:
import os
textDoc = os.path.join('C:', 'users', 'user1', 'desktop', 'stuff', 'test.txt')I you want to use single quotes you can do the following:
path = r'C:\users\user1\desktop\\'