windows file names in Python

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<beliavsky at aol.com> wrote in message
news:3064b51d.0402181333.12d57963 at posting.google.com...
> I know to use "\\" as the separator in Windows file names to get them
> recognized in Python. Is there a way to get "\" recognized as a
> directory separator?

Like this, for example? ...

fpath = r'C:\Documents and Settings\res\test.txt'
f = open(fpath,'wb')

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