IOError: [Errno 22] invalid mode ('rb') or filename - python-2.7

Question

I am a beginner at python and trying to use a very simple shutil module (shutil.copy) to copy databases from multiple folders into a backup folder. I am getting the error below. Any help is appreciated.
# importing os module
import os
#import time module
import time
import datetime
# importing shutil module
import shutil
now = datetime.datetime.now()
timestamp = str(now.strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M%S"))
source5 = "F:/SHARED/SOP/PRE GO LIVE/TEST CASES & SCENARIOS/MASTER/PRE_GO_LIVE_MASTER.accdb"
dest5 = "F:/SHARED/SOP/SB/Python/Destination/PRE_GO_LIVE_MASTER.accdb_"+timestamp+".accdb"
print("Before copying ")
DB5 = shutil.copy(source5,dest5)
print("After DATABASE has been copied")
Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\sbasava1\Desktop\Python\Final_Attempt.py", line 101, in <module>
DB5 = shutil.copy(source5,dest5)
File "C:\Python27\lib\shutil.py", line 119, in copy
copyfile(src, dst)
File "C:\Python27\lib\shutil.py", line 82, in copyfile
with open(src, 'rb') as fsrc:
IOError: [Errno 22] invalid mode ('rb') or filename:

Answer 1

Check your file path, use double backslashes \\ or a single forward slash / or make your string a raw string r"...".
# Original path - wouldn't work
path = "c:\location\directory"
# Raw string - would work
path = r"c:\location\directory"
# Double slashes - would work
path = "c:\\location\\directory"
# Forward slashes - would work
path = "c:/location/directory"
Consider learning about string literals
If this didn't help leave me a comment, it would also help to see the/part of the code you are working with!
Edit: Running your script didn't give me an issue:
Check if the directory you are trying to create a file in actually exists