# Load valume issue

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/load-valume-issue/2400>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [March 22, 2018, 1:33pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/load-valume-issue/2400 "2018-03-22T13:33:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![anandmulay3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac8455/32.png) [@anandmulay3](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/anandmulay3)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 1:33pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/load-valume-issue/2400/1 "2018-03-22T13:33:18Z")

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i’m trying to load volume in python scriptable module script

code :[success, loadedVolumeNode] = slicer.util.loadVolume(path, returnNode=True)

error :

Traceback (most recent call last):  
File “”, line 1, in   
File “C:/Anand Work/PythonInterfacer.py”, line 9, in   
[success, loadedVolumeNode] = slicer.util.loadVolume(path, returnNode=True)  
File “C:\Program Files\Slicer 4.8.1\bin\Python\slicer\util.py”, line 377, in loadVolume  
return loadNodeFromFile(filename, filetype, properties, returnNode)  
File “C:\Program Files\Slicer 4.8.1\bin\Python\slicer\util.py”, line 306, in loadNodeFromFile  
success = app.coreIOManager().loadNodes(filetype, properties)  
ValueError: Could not find matching overload for given arguments:  
(‘VolumeFile’, {‘fileName’: ‘C:\Anand Work\Sft.nrrd’})  
The following slots are available:  
loadNodes(qSlicerIO::IOFileType fileType, qSlicerIO::IOProperties parameters, vtkCollection loadedNodes) -\> bool  
loadNodes(qSlicerIO::IOFileType fileType, qSlicerIO::IOProperties parameters) -\> bool  
loadNodes(qSlicerIO::IOFileType fileType, qSlicerIO::IOProperties parameters, vtkCollection loadedNodes) -\> bool  
loadNodes(qSlicerIO::IOFileType fileType, qSlicerIO::IOProperties parameters) -\> bool

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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2018, 4:59am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/load-valume-issue/2400/2 "2018-03-24T04:59:04Z")

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Most likely the problem is that your path contains special characters (`\A` and `\S`, note that `\` is an escape character). You can use any of these syntaxes instead:

- `r‘C:\Anand Work\Sft.nrrd’` =\> `r` prefix specifies raw string, `\` is not interpreted as escape character in these strings
- `‘C:\\Anand Work\\Sft.nrrd’` =\> double backslash encodes backslash
- `‘C:/Anand Work/Sft.nrrd’` =\> forward slashes can be use instead of backslashes