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

Use raw strings for Windows paths:

path = r'D:\work\Kindle\srcs\test1.html'

Otherwise the \t piece of your string will be interpreted as a Tab character.