python - EOL while scanning string literal -

this code , following error message: line 8 sepfile=readfile.read().split('\') syntaxerror: eol while scanning string literal me? thanks.

import matplotlib.pyplot plt import numpy np x=[] y=[]  readfile = open (("/users/sun/desktop/text58.txt"), 'r')  sepfile=readfile.read().split('\') readfile.close()  plotpair in sepfile:     xandy=plotpair.split(',')     x.append(int(xandy[2]))     y.append(int(xandy[1])) print x print y  plt.plot(x,y)  plt.title('tweet') plt.xlabel('') plt.ylabel('') plt.show() 

\ special character in python string literals: starts escape sequence.

to fix problem, need double backslash:

sepfile=readfile.read().split('\\') 

doing tells python using literal backslash rather escape sequence.

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also, for, keywords in python, needs lowercase:

for plotpair in sepfile: