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When I append a path, python gives an error

I tried to add a directory path to sys.path, but it gives me an error:

import sys
sys.path.append("C:\Users\tamer\Desktop\code\python\modules")

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

  • Another approach is to use raw string, basically r is prefixed. For this use case it should be.

    sys.path.append(r"C:\Users\tamer\Desktop\code\python\modules")