Question

Hi I am trying to represent a file location as a variable because the finial script will be run on another machine. This is the code I have tried followed by the error I get. It seems to me that some how python is adding “\” and that is causing the problem. If that is the case how do I get it not to insert the “\”? Thank you

F = 'C:\Documents and Settings\myfile.txt','r'
f = open(F)

and the error

TypeError: invalid file: ('C:\\Documents and Settings\\myfile.txt', 'r')

Answer 1

Try

f=open('C:\Documents and Settings\myfile.txt','r')

Instead of using the variable F. the way you have it 'r' is part of the file name, which it is not.