os.listdir path error

[Jerry Hill]

On 8/3/07, vedrandekovic at v-programs.com <vedrandekovic at v-programs.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Here is my simple listdir example:
>
> >>> import os
> >>> os.listdir("C:\Python24\") # This directory relly exists
>
> Here is my error:
>
> WindowsError: [Errno 3] The system cannot find the path specified: 'l/
> *.*'


That's a somewhat surprising error.  Under 2.5, I get a more helpful
error message:

>>> import os
>>> os.listdir("C:\Python25\")
	
SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string

That's because I've escaped the closing quote of the string with \".
Use this instead:

>>> os.listdir("C:\\Python25\\")
or
>>> os.listdir("C:/Python25/")

since windows is usually happy to use forward slashes instead of
backslashes in directory names.

-- 
Jerry