Why do I get a SyntaxError for a Unicode escape in my file path

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The folder I want to get to is called python and is on my desktop   I get the following error when I try to get to it   gt  gt  gt  os chdir  C  Users expoperialed Desktop Python   SyntaxError   unicode error   unicodeescape  codec can t decode bytes in position 2-3  truncated  UXXXXXXXX escape

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This usually happens in Python 3  One of the common reasons would be that while specifying your file path you need      instead of      As in   filePath    C   User  Desktop  myFile    For Python 2  just using     would work

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f   open  C   Users  Pooja  Desktop  trolldata csv     Use      for python program in Python version 3 and above   Error will be resolved

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You need to use a raw string  double your slashes or use forward slashes instead  r C  Users expoperialed Desktop Python   C   Users  expoperialed  Desktop  Python   C  Users expoperialed Desktop Python   In regular python strings  the  U character combination signals a extended Unicode codepoint escape  You can hit any number of other issues  for any of the recognised escape sequences  such as  a or  t or  x  etc

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C   Users  expoperialed  Desktop  Python This syntax worked for me

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All the three syntax work very well   Another way is to first write  path   r C  user                       whatever is the path for you   and then passing it to os chdir path

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Use this   os chdir  C  Users expoperialed Desktop Python

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I had the same error  Basically  I suspect that the path cannot start either with  U  or  User  after  C     I changed my directory to  c  file name png  by putting the file that I want to access from python right under the  c    path   In your case  if you have to access the  python  folder  perhaps reinstall the python  and change the installation path to something like  c  python   Otherwise  just avoid the      User     in your path  and put your project under C

[python] Why do I get a SyntaxError for a Unicode escape in my file path?

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