(unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes - string with '\u'

Question

Writing my code for Python 2.6, but with Python 3 in mind, I thought it was a good idea to put

from __future__ import unicode_literals

at t

Answer 1

When you're writing string literals which contain backslashes, such as paths (on Windows) or regexes, use raw strings. That's what they're for.