I am trying to run a discord bot… i got the source code from here - thanrek/Scranton-Guesser: A Python Discord bot that turns quotes from a series to screenshots (github.com)
I downloaded all the pip packages that were needed… but my file path for the videos folder is like
D:\Movies\The Office\The Office (US) (2005) Season 1-9 but when i put this in the json file it says invalid escape character or something… does anyone have any idea on how to fix this?
In a JSON string, you need to escape backslashes by adding a second backslash before them. So “D:\Movies\The Office” becomes “D:\Movies\The Office”.
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You mean:
"D:\\Movies\\The Office”
(Discourse needs another backslash too ;-))
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You got me there. 
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I tried them but then it showed "D:\Movies\The Office” filepath not found
Thanks to both of you though…
I think the space is the problem there. Replacing it with underscore could help.
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I wonder when Microsoft are going to come to their senses, and stop using escape characters as path separators. It’s never not going to cause problems.
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You can almost always use d:/movies/the office as well.
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Tried this too… but it didn’t work
Yeah i used to like Microsoft… but their decision are pissing me off sometimes… for example i have Halo MCC on steam… and i can’t play Multiplayer properly due to their outdated IP protocol called Teredo or something and there is no way to fix it either… I am seriously thinking of switching to Linux
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Depends on the program/library that interprets the JSON file.