error in os.chdir

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 07:34:46AM -0700, Sharan Basappa wrote:

> sorry. I mean why my code worked in one case but did not in the other one.
> 
> This worked - os.chdir('D:\Projects\Initiatives\machine learning\programs') 
> 
> This did not work - os.chdir('D:\Projects\Initiatives\machine learning\programs\assertion')
> 
> only difference is, I added an additional directory in the problematic case.

The answer lies in the (inadvertant) use of escaping.

Which is the very reason _why_ forward slashes were favoured
over backward ones.

Karsten
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