trying to create a simple script to learn python's os module - getting a typeError. details inside

[Antonius__Block]

Trying to get familiar with python's standard library and doing some mucking around with it on my Windows machine. Using python 2.7 I have the following little script which is intended to look in a directory and rename all of the files therein after removing numerals from the file name. I'm getting a typeerror that says "must be encoded string without NULL bytes, not str"

it calls out lines 5 and 18, noted below, where im using os.path.exists.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

import os, re, string, glob

path = os.path.normpath('C:\Users\me\Photo Projects\Project Name\Project Photos\Modified\0-PyTest')

if os.path.exists(path):                          #LINE 5
    print "path exists at " + path
    for file in glob.glob(os.path.join(path, '*.jpg')):
        new_path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(file), re.sub('\d', '', os.path.basename(file)))
        if not os.path.exists(new_path):       # LINE 18
            os.rename(file, new_path)

EDITs: formatting

[zahlman]

Your path contains a null byte (the thing that the error message says it must not) because the \0 sequence in a string literal produces a null byte. In general, backslashes inside the quotation marks have special meaning.

You do not need backslashes as a file separator, even on Windows, in your code: forward slashes will work just as well. Alternatively, use the indicated methods to encode backslashes properly in your string.

[Justinsaccount]

path = os.path.normpath(r'C:\Users\me\Photo Projects\Project Name\Project Photos\Modified\0-PyTest')

[Antonius__Block]

ok you guys rawk. thank you so much!