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

From random832@fastmail.us
Subject Re: SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape
Date 2015-05-08 15:29 -0400
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On Fri, May 8, 2015, at 15:00, zljubisicmob@gmail.com wrote:
> 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.

configparser won't have that problem, since "escaping" is only an issue
for python source code. No escaping for backslashes is necessary in
files read by configparser.

>>> import sys
>>> import configparser
>>> config = configparser.ConfigParser()
>>> config['DEFAULT'] = {'ROOTDIR': r'C:\Users\zoran'}
>>> config.write(sys.stdout)
[DEFAULT]
rootdir = C:\Users\zoran

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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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