whitespaces in the path of windows filepath

I am working on file operations using python.

I have a filepath as :

filepath = "E:/ABC/SEM 2/testfiles/all.txt"

when I am opening the file using python, it says me :

IOError: No such file:

but, the file is present on the drive.
It may be because windows cannnot take "SEM 2" properly as it contains space.
How can I deal with such whitespaces in the path of window path?

Solution 1:

path = r"C:\Users\mememe\Google Drive\Programs\Python\file.csv"

Closing the path in r"string" also solved this problem very well.

Solution 2:

There is no problem with whitespaces in the path since you're not using the "shell" to open the file. Here is a session from the windows console to prove the point. You're doing something else wrong

Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 12 2011, 14:24:46) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on wi
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Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os
>>>
>>> os.makedirs("C:/ABC/SEM 2/testfiles")
>>> open("C:/ABC/SEM 2/testfiles/all.txt","w")
<open file 'C:/ABC/SEM 2/testfiles/all.txt', mode 'w' at 0x0000000001D95420>
>>> exit()

C:\Users\Gnibbler>dir "C:\ABC\SEM 2\testfiles"
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 46A0-BB64

 Directory of c:\ABC\SEM 2\testfiles

13/02/2013  10:20 PM    <DIR>          .
13/02/2013  10:20 PM    <DIR>          ..
13/02/2013  10:20 PM                 0 all.txt
               1 File(s)              0 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  78,929,309,696 bytes free

C:\Users\Gnibbler>

Solution 3:

Try putting double quotes in your filepath variable

"\"E:/ABC/SEM 2/testfiles/all.txt\""

Check the permissions of the file or in any case consider renaming the folder to remove the space

Solution 4:

a hack on Mac:

path = '/Volumes/Public/ABY/Documents/Musiq/slumdog millonaire/Mausam and Escape.mp3'
nPath = path.replace(' ', '\\ ')
print(nPath)

Output:

/Volumes/Public/ABY/Documents/Musiq/slumdog\ millonaire/Mausam\ and\ Escape.mp3