SyntaxError unicode error unicodeescape codec can t decode bytes in position 2-3 truncated UXXXXXXXX escape

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SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape
Sep 9, 2020 in Python by anonymous
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This error occurs because you are using a normal string as a path. You can use one of the following solutions to fix your problem.

  1. Just put r before your normal string it converts normal string to raw string:
pandas.read_csv(r"C:\Users\Edureka\Desktop\myac.csv")
pandas.read_csv("C:/Users/Edureka/Desktop/myac.csv")
pandas.read_csv("C:\\Users\\Edureka\\Desktop\\myac.csv")

You can try one of this

answered Sep 9, 2020 by Gitika
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