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

In addition to using a raw string (prefix string with the r character), the os.path module may be helpful to automatically provide OS-correct slashes when building a pathname.