On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@hotmail.invalid> wrote: > > handle = open("\\Winmx\New$\q.txt") > for line in handle: > line=line.strip() > print line > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "\\Winmx\New$\add viewed.py", line 2, in <module> > handle = open("\\Winmx\New$\q.txt") > IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '\\Winmx\\New$\\q.txt' > > What I would like to do is read a plain text file from a hidden > network drive and append a space and the * character to the end of > each line.
Start with this: print("\\Winmx\New$\q.txt") If that doesn't do what you expect, it's possibly because you want to use a raw string literal to prevent the backslashes from being parsed. handle = open(r"\\Winmx\New$\q.txt") That might help you. (One clue that this is happening is that some of your backslashes got doubled in the error message.) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list