newbie: unable to open database file

[ccl4r]

I'm tryin out the tutorial and am very new to this...I have my
settings.py as:

DATABASE_ENGINE = 'sqlite3' # 'postgresql_psycopg2',
'postgresql', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
DATABASE_NAME = 'C:\Users\Student\Desktop\mysite'

and when I run the command:
python manage.py syncdb

I get a the error:
self.connection = Database.connect(**kwargs)
sqlite3.OparationalError: unable to open database file

I saw related posts but can't find a way to resolve.

[Karen Tracey]

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 10:46 PM, ccl4r <cclus...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm tryin out the tutorial and am very new to this...I have my
settings.py as:

DATABASE_ENGINE = 'sqlite3'           # 'postgresql_psycopg2',
'postgresql', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
DATABASE_NAME = 'C:\Users\Student\Desktop\mysite'

In Python, backslashes in string literals are escape characters.  You either need to double the backslashes or use forward slashes, which will work fine in path names, even on Windows.

Karen