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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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Date 2015-05-10 01:22 +1000
Subject Re: SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.284.1431184936.12865.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 1:13 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> FileNotFoundError means that the program did run, it tried to open a file,
> but the file doesn't exist.

Normally it does, at least. Sometimes it means that a *directory*
doesn't exist (for instance, you can get this when you try to create a
new file, which otherwise wouldn't make sense), and occasionally,
Windows will give you rather peculiar errors when weird things go
wrong, which may be what's going on here (maximum path length - though
that can be overridden by switching to a UNC-style path).

Steven's point still stands - very different from SyntaxError - but
unfortunately it's not always as simple as the name suggests. Thank
you oh so much, Windows.

ChrisA

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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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