How to get rid of double backslash in python windows file path string? [duplicate]
The double backslash is not wrong, python represents it way that to the user. In each double backslash \\, the first one escapes the second to imply an actual backslash. If a = r’raw s\tring’ and b = ‘raw s\\tring’ (no ‘r’ and explicit double slash) then they are both represented as ‘raw s\\tring’. >>> … Read more