open() error ---- what am I missing?

[John Machin]

jimd at vega.starshine.org (Jim Dennis) wrote in message news:<a7462b$11ve$1 at news.idiom.com>...
> In article <avPg8.11102$hK4.4053571 at e420r-atl1.usenetserver.com>, 
>  Eric Torstenson wrote:
> 
> > OK I figured it out. It was a misleading error message.  For those with
> > similar troubles I have listed an explanation 
>  
> > It was a bad path name after all. It is a nested structure, where at one
> > point I left off one extra "\" (I'm using windows). I had looked at that
> > path a dozen times, somehow missing that single "\" down toward the
> > middle....
> 
>  In other words it was another case of: r"use raw strings for 
>  filename literals under Win Python!"

Possibly another case of: """

In general, if you absolutely *must* hard-code filename literals in
Python scripts, don't use "\\name" (for example) or even r"\name", use
"/name"; the Windows API happily supports it.

"""