On Sun, May 1, 2016, at 10:23 PM, DFS wrote: > Trying the rawstring thing (say it fast 3x): > > webpage = "http://econpy.pythonanywhere.com/ex/001.html" > > ---------------------------------------------------- > webfile = "D:\\econpy001.html" > urllib.urlretrieve(webpage,webfile) WORKS > ---------------------------------------------------- > webfile = "rD:\econpy001.html"
The r is *outside* the string. Its: r"D:\econpy001.html" -- Stephen Hansen m e @ i x o k a i . i o -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list