Python WindowsError: [Error 123] The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect:

Question

I am new to programming, this is actually my first work assignment with coding. my code below is throwing an error:

WindowsError: [Error 123] The filename,          


        

Answer 1

This is kind of an old question but I wanted to mentioned here the pathlib library in Python3.

If you write:

from pathlib import Path
path: str = 'C:\\Users\\myUserName\\project\\subfolder'
osDir = Path(path)

or

path: str = "C:\\Users\\myUserName\\project\\subfolder"
osDir = Path(path)

osDir will be the same result.

Also if you write it as:

path: str = "subfolder"
osDir = Path(path)
absolutePath: str = str(Path.absolute(osDir))

you will get back the absolute directory as

'C:\\Users\\myUserName\\project\\subfolder'

You can check more for the pathlib library here.