How do I write filepaths correctly in Python

Question

I'm trying to find all the files in a directory.

import glob
import os
os.chdir("C:\test\\")
for files in glob.glob("*.*"):
    print(files)

But this returns nothing, even though there are files in C:\\test\\

So... what's going on, and how do I fix this?

Answer 1

in "C:\\test\\\\" the \\t evaluates to a tab character. What you want is "C:/test/" or r"C:\\test" - the difference is that the first version makes use of the fact that all windows apis and thus also python support forward slashes, too. The second one is a raw string where no escape sequences exist.