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user3206440

Reputation: 5049

handling windows paths in Jupyter notebooks

I have a particular problem I'm facing with windows file paths in Jupyter notebook.

path = 'C:\apps\python'
print(path)

This gives C:pps\python

What I want to eventually do is to get a reference to the files in path

I was intending to do the following

files = [f for f in listdir(path) if isfile(join(path, f))]
# do something with the list of files

However this throws up the error - OSError: [WinError 123] The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect: 'C:\x07pps\\python'

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5210

Answers (1)

Arount
Arount

Reputation: 10403

It's because \a is detected like a special character (like \n or \t).

The easiest way to fix your issue here is to use raw strings:

print(r'C:\apps\python')

Gives

C:\apps\python

You can parse a literal string to a raw string with:

path = r'{}'.format(path)

Upvotes: 2

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