List problem

[Terry Reedy]

"Bjorn Pettersen" <BPettersen at NAREX.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1017438528.28926.python-list at python.org...

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>
> # Word dictionary
> dict = "c:\data\dict.txt"

Try either r"c:\data\dict.txt" or "c:\\data\\dict.txt".

or "c:/data/dict.txt" , which is both clear and safe.  However, I
believe \d == d.  In any case, he had 4000+ words of the proper length
so this does not seem to be the problem.

Terry J. Reedy