On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 04:47:44 -0700, Sharan Basappa wrote: >> The quick fix: >> >> put an r in front of the directory string: r'...' > > thanks. That works
Please don't do that. It's the wrong solution -- all you are doing is postponing failure. It will *seem* to work, until one day you will write something like this: directory = r'D:\directory\' and you will get a mysterious failure. Chris gave you the right solution: use forward slashes instead of backslashes for all paths. os.chdir('D:/Projects/Initiatives/machine learning/programs') -- Steven D'Aprano "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list