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Re: SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape

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On 2015-05-08 20:00, zljubisicmob@gmail.com wrote:
> The script is very simple (abc.txt exists in ROOTDIR directory):
>
> import os
> import shutil
>
> ROOTDIR = 'C:\Users\zoran'
>
> file1 = os.path.join(ROOTDIR, 'abc.txt')
> file2 = os.path.join(ROOTDIR, 'def.txt')
>
> shutil.move(file1, file2)
>
>
> But it returns the following error:
>
>
> C:\Python34\python.exe C:/Users/bckslash_test.py
>    File "C:/Users/bckslash_test.py", line 4
>      ROOTDIR = 'C:\Users'
>               ^
> SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape
>
> Process finished with exit code 1
>
> As I saw, I could solve the problem by changing line 4 to (small letter "r" before string:
> ROOTDIR = r'C:\Users\zoran'
>
> but that is not an option for me because I am using configparser in order to read the ROOTDIR from underlying cfg file.
>
> I need a mechanism to read the path string with single backslashes into a variable, but afterwards to escape every backslash in it.
>
> How to do that?
>
If you're reading the path from a file, it's not a problem. Try it!

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SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape zljubisicmob@gmail.com - 2015-05-08 12:00 -0700
  Re: SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape random832@fastmail.us - 2015-05-08 15:29 -0400
    Re: SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape zljubisicmob@gmail.com - 2015-05-08 13:39 -0700
      Re: SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-05-09 12:53 +1000
        Re: SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape zljubisicmob@gmail.com - 2015-05-09 03:31 -0700
          Re: SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-05-09 08:25 -0400
            Re: SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape zljubisicmob@gmail.com - 2015-05-10 14:10 -0700
              Re: SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-05-10 21:33 -0400
                Re: SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape zljubisicmob@gmail.com - 2015-05-12 11:57 -0700
          Re: SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-05-10 01:13 +1000
            Re: SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-10 01:22 +1000
            Re: SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape zljubisicmob@gmail.com - 2015-05-10 14:14 -0700
  Re: SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-05-08 20:33 +0100
  Re: SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-09 08:54 +1000

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