Question

I have been making an mp3 player with Tkinter and the module mp3play.

Say i had the song to play: C:\Music\song.mp3

and to play that song i have to run this script:

import mp3play
music_file=r'C:\Music\song.mp3'
clip = mp3play.load(music_file)
clip.play()

Easy enough, my problem though is getting the “r” there.

i have tried:

import mp3play
import re
music_file="'C:\Music\song.mp3'"

music_file='r'+music_file
music_file=re.sub('"','',music_file)

print music_file
clip = mp3play.load(music_file)

clip.play()

Which gets the output: r'C:\Music\song.mp3'

but it is a string, so it wont read the file.

Answer 1

In Python, the r prefix introduces a raw string. Outside of raw strings, backslash (\) characters are considered as escape characters and have to be escaped themselves (by doubling them).

Try a simple string instead:

music_file = 'C:\\Music\\song.mp3'