“Unicode Error ”unicodeescape" codec can't decode bytes… Cannot open text files in Python 3 [duplicate]

Answer 1

I had this error. I have a main python script which calls in functions from another, 2nd, python script. At the end of the first script I had a comment block designated with ''' '''. I was getting this error because of this commenting code block. I repeated the error multiple times once I found it to ensure this was the error, & it was. I am still unsure why.