title: finding and Importing xml file into python
body: <p>I am attempting to import an xml file into python with minidom. </p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; from xml.dom import minidom
  &gt;&gt;&gt; import os
  &gt;&gt;&gt; xmldoc = minidom.parse('c/Users/WFD/Documents/VXWorks/XML_Parasing_Python')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and python cannot find this file even though I have specifically spelled out where it is. I am new to python so if there is a glaring error I apologize but can anyone explain how to import an xml file in mydocments? 
  Here is the error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "&lt;pyshell#3&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
      xmldoc = minidom.parse('c/Users/WFD/Documents/VXWorks/XML_Parasing_Python')
    File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\dom\minidom.py", line 1920, in parse
      return expatbuilder.parse(file)
    File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\dom\expatbuilder.py", line 922, in parse
      fp = open(file, 'rb')
  IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'c/Users/WFD/Documents/VXWorks/XML_Parasing_Python'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>