Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk> added the comment:

You need to use raw strings or to use forward-slashes in your pathnames:

r"c:\downloads\hacking\0812logcompress"

or

"c:/downloads/hacking/0812logcompress"

The sequence \0 has a special meaning in strings, introducing an octal
escape, I think.

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