Parsing Errno22 with xml Element Tree

Question

I am trying to develop a simple web scraper of sorts, and keep having issues with the parsing code for the XML file used.

Whenever I run it it gives me Errno22, even though the path is valid. Could anyone assist?

try:
    xmlTree = ET.parse('C:\TestWork\RWPlus\test.xml')
    root = xmlTree.getroot()

    returnValue = root[tariffPOS][childPOS].text
    return returnValue
except Exception as error:
    errorMessage = "A " + str(
        error) + " error occurred when trying to read the XML file."
    ErrorReport(errorMessage)

Answer 1

You are supposed to escape backslashes in Python strings

ET.parse('C:\\TestWork\\RWPlus\\test.xml')

or you can use raw strings (note the r )

ET.parse(r'C:\TestWork\RWPlus\test.xml')