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.