Error with double backslash in Windows path in Python

Question

I want to work with paths in Windows in Python 3.3, but I have an error:

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: \'E:\\\\dir\\\\.

Answer 1

If you are using a raw-string, then you do not escape backslashes:

f(r'E:\dir')

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Of course, this problem (and many others like it) can be solved by simply using forwardslashes in paths:

f('E:/dir')