unicode error unicodeescape codec can t decode bytes in position 2-3 truncated UXXXXXXXX escape

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I m trying to read a  csv file into Python  Spyder  but I keep getting an error  My code   import csv  data   open  C  Users miche Documents school jaar2 MIK 2 6 vektis agb zorgverlener   data   csv reader data    print data    I get the following error      SyntaxError   unicode error   unicodeescape  codec can t decode bytes   in position 2-3  truncated  UXXXXXXXX escape   I have tried to replace the   with   or with   and I ve tried to put an r before  C   but all these things didn t work

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You can just put r in front of the string with your actual path  which denotes a raw string  For example   data   open r C  Users miche Documents school jaar2 MIK 2 6 vektis agb zorgverlener

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Try writing the file path as  C   Users miche Documents school jaar2 MIK 2 6 vektis agb zorgverlener  i e with double backslash after the drive as opposed to  C  Users miche Documents school jaar2 MIK 2 6 vektis agb zorgverlener

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The double   should work for Windows  but you still need to take care of the folders you mention in your path  All of them  exept the filename  must exist  otherwise you will get an error

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put r before your string  it converts normal string to raw string

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The first backslash in your string is being interpreted as a special character  in fact because it s followed by a  U  it s being interpreted as the start of a unicode code point   To fix this you need to escape the backslashes in the string   I don t know Python specifically but I d guess you do it by doubling the backslashes   data   open  C   Users  miche  Documents  school  jaar2  MIK  2 6  vektis agb zorgverlener

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consider it as a raw string  Just simple answer  add r before your windows path    import csv data   open r C  Users miche Documents school jaar2 MIK 2 6 vektis agb zorgverlener   data   csv reader data    print data

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it worked for me by neutralizing the     by f   open  F   file csv

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As per String literals   String literals can be enclosed within single quotes  i e         or double quotes  i e   quot     quot    They can also be enclosed in matching groups of three single or double quotes  these are generally referred to as triple-quoted strings   The backslash character  i e      is used to escape characters which otherwise will have a special meaning  such as newline  backslash itself  or the quote character  String literals may optionally be prefixed with a letter r or R  Such strings are called raw strings and use different rules for backslash escape sequences  In triple-quoted strings  unescaped newlines and quotes are allowed  except that the three unescaped quotes in a row terminate the string  Unless an r or R prefix is present  escape sequences in strings are interpreted according to rules similar to those used by Standard C   So ideally you need to replace the line  data   open  quot C  Users miche Documents school jaar2 MIK 2 6 vektis agb zorgverlener quot    To any one of the following characters   Using raw prefix and single quotes  i e            data   open r C  Users miche Documents school jaar2 MIK 2 6 vektis agb zorgverlener     Using double quotes  i e   quot     quot   and escaping backslash character  i e        data   open  quot C   Users  miche  Documents  school  jaar2  MIK  2 6  vektis agb zorgverlener quot     Using double quotes  i e   quot     quot   and forwardslash character  i e        data   open  quot C  Users miche Documents school jaar2 MIK 2 6 vektis agb zorgverlener quot

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This error occurs because you are using a normal string as a path  You can use one of the three following solutions to fix your problem  1  Just put r before your normal string it converts normal string to raw string  pandas read csv r quot C  Users DeePak Desktop myac csv quot    2  pandas read csv  quot C  Users DeePak Desktop myac csv quot    3  pandas read csv  quot C   Users  DeePak  Desktop  myac csv quot

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Just putting an r in front works well   eg     white   pd read csv r C  Users hydro a csv

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

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