Can't open file

[Telplate]

I'm trying to open a file in Windows with this code:

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f = open('C:\my_programs\records.txt')
print f.read()

And it is returning this error:

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C:\my_programs>openfile.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\my_programs\openfile.py", line 1, in ?
    f = open('C:\my_programs\records.txt')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\my_programs\records.txt'

[Alter Lobo]

The backslashes in 'C:\my_programs\records.txt' are escape characters an turns the \r  into a carriage return character.

To avoid the interpretation of backslashes in strings place the r letter before the string:

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f = open(r'C:\my_programs\records.txt')