python - SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character

Question

I made this very simple one line code that is only supposed to start Hearthstone, I get the error "SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character", and don't know why. Here's the code:

exec("C:\Program Files (x86)\Hearthstone\Hearthstone.exe")

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

In python \ is a line continuation character and nothing can come after it on that line. To fix your problem use two backslashes \\ or simply one forward slash /.