Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.redatomik.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:error': 0.03; 'that?': 0.05; 'error:': 0.07; "subject:' ": 0.07; 'string': 0.09; '"r"': 0.09; '(unicode': 0.09; 'escape': 0.09; 'exit': 0.09; 'shutil': 0.09; 'subject:position': 0.09; 'truncated': 0.09; 'variable,': 0.09; 'afterwards': 0.16; 'backslash': 0.16; 'backslashes': 0.16; 'codec': 0.16; 'file1': 0.16; 'from:addr:mrabarnett.plus.com': 0.16; 'from:addr:python': 0.16; 'from:name:mrab': 0.16; 'message-id:@mrabarnett.plus.com': 0.16; 'received:192.168.1.4': 0.16; 'string:': 0.16; 'subject: \n ': 0.16; 'subject:skip:u 10': 0.16; 'subject:unicode': 0.16; 'syntaxerror:': 0.16; 'underlying': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'file,': 0.19; 'finished': 0.19; 'mechanism': 0.19; 'import': 0.22; 'header :User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'bytes': 0.24; 'exists': 0.24; 'file.': 0.24; 'script': 0.25; 'skip:" 20': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'code': 0.31; "skip:' 10": 0.31; 'file': 0.32; 'option': 0.32; 'could': 0.34; 'problem': 0.35; "can't": 0.35; 'problem.': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'changing': 0.37; 'skip:o 20': 0.38; 'to:addr :python-list': 0.38; 'subject:can': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'how': 0.40; 'read': 0.60; 'solve': 0.60; 'simple': 0.61; "you're": 0.61; 'email addr:gmail.com': 0.63; 'it!': 0.67; 'configparser': 0.84 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=DZWZq5dW c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=0nF1XD0wxitMEM03M9B4ZQ==:117 a=0nF1XD0wxitMEM03M9B4ZQ==:17 a=0Bzu9jTXAAAA:8 a=SY9aFQKHIdAA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=EBOSESyhAAAA:8 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=JaBlNa3EQuSd_LdB3MgA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 X-AUTH: mrabarnett@:2500 Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 20:33:25 +0100 From: MRAB User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20+ Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 36 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1431113795 news.xs4all.nl 2848 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:45021 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:90193 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!