Backslashes in Windows filepath? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Try adding an "r", do as below:

path = r"C:\mypaht\morepaht\myfie.file"

Answer 2

Short answer: Use forward slash instead as suggested by gnibbler.

On using raw strings:

Using a raw string usually works fine, still you have to note that r"\"" escapes the quoute char. That is, raw string is not absolutely raw and thats the reason why you cant use backslash (or any odd number of backslashes) in the end of a string like '\' (the backslash would escape the following quote character).

In [9]: a=r'\\'

In [10]: b=r'\\\'
  File "<ipython-input-10-9f86439e68a3>", line 1
    b=r'\\\'
             ^
SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal


In [11]: a
Out[11]: '\\\\'

Answer 3

You should not construct file paths that way. Its not portable and error prone.

Use the join() function from os.path

import os.path
path = os.path.join('C:', 'Users', 'name')