On Saturday, 30 June 2018 18:55:53 UTC+5:30, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 05:46:59AM -0700, Sharan Basappa wrote:
>
> > > >> The quick fix:
> > > >>
> > > >> put an r in front of the directory string: r'...'
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > alright. I will do that but still I don't have an answer why I got the
> > error in the first place.
>
> For that you'll have to read up on strings and escaping.
>
> https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/introduction.html#strings
>
> Karsten
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sorry. I mean why my code worked in one case but did not in the other one.
This worked - os.chdir('D:\Projects\Initiatives\machine learning\programs')
This did not work - os.chdir('D:\Projects\Initiatives\machine
learning\programs\assertion')
only difference is, I added an additional directory in the problematic case.
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