Hey all, I'm trying to do something very simple - open an image in python: >>> img = Image.open("C:\Documents and Settings\Dmitry\Desktop\test.bmp") but I get this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#4>", line 1, in <module> img = Image.open("C:\Documents and Settings\Dmitry\Desktop\test.bmp") File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\PIL\Image.py", line 1717, in open fp = __builtin__.open(fp, "rb") IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\Dmitry\\Desktop\test.bmp' The error message has two backslashes instead of one for the bitmap location, which is rather preplexing. Any help is appreciated.

I'm not familiar with python, but in C++ there are certain characters that have a single slash in front of them. For example: \n means new line. Because of this, if you want an actual forward slash, like in a path, then you have to use the forward slash character which is \\. You might need to re-write your statement with double slashes instead of single.