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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:52:08 -0600
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On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 12:31 AM, Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> - you need to escape the backslashes (or just use forward slashes, they work on windows too)

Or use a raw string. There is usually no reason to have escape
sequences at all in a file system path.