How do I escape forward slashes in python, so that open() sees my file as a filename to write, instead of a filepath to read?

Question

Let me preface this by saying I\'m not exactly sure what is happening with my code; I\'m fairly new to programming.

I\'ve been working on creating an i

Answer 1

you cannot have / in the file basename on unix or windows, you could replace / with .:

page.replace("/",".") + ".txt"

Python presumes /site etc.. is a directory.