escape single quote

[deep_logic]

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.

[SheeppOSU]

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')

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I you want to use single quotes you can do the following:

path = r'C:\users\user1\desktop\\'