Folder Syntax

Python, among other languages, designates certain special characters as symbols beginning with a Windows-style backslash. Two common examples are \t ([TAB]) and \n (new line). Thus, in Windows, the notation

C:\folder\test.txt

is interpreted by Python as

C:[TAB]folder[TAB]text.txt or

C:         folder test.txt

To work around this issue, you should use a double backslash (\\) to signify folders. The above example would then become:

C:\\folder\\test.txt

which would be properly interpreted to mean a specific file path.

Alternatively, you can use Macintosh format, which uses colons to signify folders as follows:

:folder:test.txt