open filename with spaces in path

[Kam-Hung Soh]

On Wed, 07 May 2008 09:09:08 +1000, Kam-Hung Soh <kamhung.soh at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Wed, 07 May 2008 08:36:35 +1000, Michael Robertson  
> <mcrobertson at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm having trouble opening a file in linux, whose path has spaces in it.
>>
>> $ mkdir my\ test
>> $ echo test > my\ test/test.txt
>> $ python
>>
>>  >>> open('./my test/test.txt')
>> Exception
>>  >>> open('./my\\ test/test.txt')
>> Exception
>>
>
> Try a string literal by prefixing your path string with "r":
>
> open(r'./my test/test.txt')
>
> See http://docs.python.org/ref/strings.html
>
>> but yet...
>>
>>  >>> import os
>>  >>> os.chdir('./my test')
>>  >>> open('./test')
>>
>> works just fine.
>
> Couldn't test on Linux, but in Windows ...
>
>>>> os.chdir('C:\temp\my test')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module>
> WindowsError: [Error 123] The filename, directory name, or volume label  
> syntax is incorrect: 'C:\temp\\my test'
>

Oops.  Should have been:

>>> os.chdir(r'C:\temp\my test')
>>> (no errors)

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