Strange path separators on Windows

Question

I an running this code:

#!/usr/bin/python      coding=utf8
#  test.py = to demo fault
def loadFile(path):
    f = open(path,\'r\')
    text = f.read()
    re         


        

Answer 1

The backslash is an escape character when the next character combination would result in a special meaning. Take the following examples:

>>> '\r'
'\r'
>>> '\n'
'\n'
>>> '\b'
'\x08'
>>> '\c'
'\\c'
>>>

r, n, and b all have special meanings when preceded by a backslash. The same is true for t, which would produce a tab. You either need to A. Double all your backslashes, for consistency, because '\\' will produce a backslash, or, B, use raw strings: r'c:\path\to\my\file.txt'. The preceding r will prompt the interpreter not to evaluate back slashes as escape sequences, preventing the \t from appearing as a tab.