Difference between str and string

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Hugh Macdonald wrote:

> Anyway, any idea what I'm doing wrong or what python's doing wrong?

It looks you have a string with embedded null bytes, which is not
supported where you want to use it. Do

print repr(path)

to find out what precisely the value of path is (doing a plain print
would send the null bytes to the terminal, which might ignore them)

HTH,
Martin