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

Answer 1

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")

Answer 2

Just putting an r in front works well.

eg:

  white = pd.read_csv(r"C:\Users\hydro\a.csv")

Answer 3

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"

Answer 4

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")