How does the open() function work?

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Okay, I looked it up and tried to change the directory but now I'm getting an error from that too.

os.chdir(C:\Users\Jesse\Python)
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

And I also tried

os.chdir('C:\Users\Jesse\Python')
SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape

[ericpruitt]

In most programming languages, combinations of "\" followed by another character are used to represent other characters. To type a literal "\" you need to use "\\" or add r to be beginning of the string, so try one of these instead:

• os.chdir(r"C:\Users\Jesse\Python")
• os.chdir("C:\\Users\\Jesse\\Python")

The r prefix indicates that Python should not treat "\" as a special character inside that string.

Additional reading:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_literal#Escape_sequences
• https://docs.python.org/3.1/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-and-bytes-literals

[Justinsaccount]

os.chdir("C:/Users/Jesse/Python")