运行.py文件时，“连续行字符后出现意外字符”？

Question

I'm brand new to Python, so excuse my ignorance. I also checked the other questions with this same error, but they all regarded the escape sequence "\\n". When attempting to run a python file from my Documents in the Python command line, I get the error "unexpected character after line continuation character."

I've tried reading straight from W3Schools , which says to use...

C:\\Users\\Your Name>python helloworld.py

Since my file is in Documents in a file called test , I tried...

C:\\Users\\Chris\\Documents\\Python>python test.py

However, I received the given error. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Edit

In the OS command prompt, the py prefix should have been used, rather than python

Answer 1

Type python test.py into the shell directly, not into the python interpreter. The C:\\Users\\Chris\\Documents\\Python> has backslashes in it, which cause this error as they make python expect the line to end.