chdir()

[Carsten Haese]

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 12:54 -0700, HMS Surprise wrote:
> Tried executing os.chdir("c:\twill") from a python Tk shell and got
> the error message:
> 
> WindowsError: [Error 123] The filename, directory name, or volume
> label syntax is incorrect: 'c:\twill'.

Backslash-t is a tab character, so you're trying to chdir to
C:<tab>will, which is not a valid path name. Use a forward slash, double
up the backslash, or use a raw string literal:

os.chdir("c:/twill")
os.chdir("c:\\twill")
os.chdir(r"c:\twill")

HTH,

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Carsten Haese
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