Hi Don! Don Parris wrote: > The book, "Programming Python", shows an example of os.chdir() on the > Windows platform, as follows: > > os.chdir(r'c:\temp') r ... raw Strings. There will no substitution be processed. Otherwise the "\t" ( Tab ) will be inserted in the string: >>> print "a\tb" a b >>> print r"a\tb" a\tb >>> HTH Ewald