Error with double backslash in Windows path in Python [duplicate]

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If you are using a raw-string, then you do not escape backslashes:

f(r'E:\dir')

Of course, this problem (and many others like it) can be solved by simply using forwardslashes in paths:

f('E:/dir')

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