title: syntaxerror: unexpected character after line continuation character in python
body: <p>Can anybody tell me what is wrong in this program? I face</p>
  <pre><code>syntaxerror unexpected character after line continuation character
  </code></pre>
  <p>when I run this program:</p>
  <pre><code>f = open(D\\python\\HW\\2_1 - Copy.cp,&quot;r&quot;);  
  lines = f.readlines();
  
  for i in lines:  
      thisline = i.split(&quot; &quot;);
  </code></pre>