On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 07:34:46AM -0700, Sharan Basappa wrote: > 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.
The answer lies in the (inadvertant) use of escaping. Which is the very reason _why_ forward slashes were favoured over backward ones. Karsten -- GPG 40BE 5B0E C98E 1713 AFA6 5BC0 3BEA AC80 7D4F C89B -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list