Problem opening a text file in Python

Question

This seems like it should be very easy:

f = open(\'C:\\Users\\john\\Desktop\\text.txt\', \'r\')

But I am getting this error:

Answer 1

Your file name has backslash characters in it. Backslash is the escape character in Python strings. Either replace them with '/' characters or use r'C:\Users\john\Desktop\text.txt'.

You might also find the functions in os.path useful.