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Old March 18th, 2004, 10:33 PM
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Can anyone tell me why i keep getting the following syntax errors:
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f = open( r "C:\Python23\test.txt")
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> f = open( r 'C:Python23\test.txt')
SyntaxError: invalid syntax


i've saved the text file in python's path and if i don't give open a path, just the name of the file, it opens fine. What is the invalid syntax here?
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Old March 18th, 2004, 11:39 PM
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those spaces are invalid syntax, the "r" has to be the character immediately preceding the quotes if you want to use raw strings

also, use file and not open, open is deprecated
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Hi maybe this works:

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f = open("C:\Python23\test.txt", "r")
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A combination of the two replies:
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f = file(r"C:\Python23\test.txt", "r")


Read access is the default mode so you could leave the comma "r" bit out, but I wouldn't.

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