How to open a windows file from a python shell

Question

I am new to python. i have tried all the techniques available in tutorials and textbooks to open an already existing file through the python shell, it always return one form of error or the other.

test_file = open('C:\Users\User\Documents\test.txt')

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 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#48>", line 1, in <module> see_file = open('Arrows') FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'Arrows' test_file = open('C:\\Users\\User\\Documents\\test.txt') SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \\UXXXXXXXX escape 

Answer 1

file_open = open('C:\\Users\\User\\Documents\\test.txt')

这应该做的伎俩，你需要转义特殊字符，如\\ with \\

Answer 2

If by opening you mean loading a file:

path = "C:/Users/User/Documents/test.txt"
file = open(path, 'r')