New to Python.

[Terry Reedy]

"Erik Max Francis" <max at alcyone.com> wrote in message
news:40593E14.EAF16BD5 at alcyone.com...
> Sean Ross wrote:
>
> > # sorry, that should be
> > source = file('C:\Python23\Samples\Bob.txt')
>
> You really want to use double backslashes (\\) here or use a raw string
> (r'...').  If not, this will eventually bite you.

Or forward slashes (/), which avoids the whole problem.

tjr