“EOL while scanning single-quoted string”? (backslash in string)

Question

import os
xp1 = \"\\Documents and Settings\\\"
xp2 = os.getenv(\"USERNAME\")
print xp1+xp2

Gives me error

 File \"1.py\", line 2 
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Answer 1

Additionally to the blackslash problem, don't join paths with the "+" operator -- use os.path.join instead.

Also, construct the path to a user's home directory like that is likely to fail on new versions of Windows. There are API functions for that in pywin32.