Is there a way to prevent Python from recognizing escape characters?

Question

Code:

import os
filename = "cp.lnk"
lnk = "shortcuts\cmd_shortcuts\" + filename
os.system(lnk)

And that gives me this error, I'm assuming, because it recognizes escape quotes in the variable:

'shortcuts' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

I then tried:

import os
filename = "cp.lnk"
lnk = r"shortcuts\cmd_shortcuts\" + filename
os.system(lnk)

It game me the same error. How can I fix this?

Thank you!

Edit: Sorry my question was so bad ):

Answer 1

Pretty sure that should fix it but don't quote me on that.

import os
filename = "cp.lnk"
lnk = r"shortcuts\\cmd_shortcuts\\" + filename
os.system(lnk)

import os
filename = "cp.lnk"
lnk = "shortcuts\\cmd_shortcuts\\" + filename
os.system(lnk)