"aberry" <abe...@aol.in> wrote in message news:24146775.p...@talk.nabble.com...

I am facing an error on Unicode decoding of path if it contain a folder/file
name starting with character 'u' .

Here is what I did in IDLE
1. >>> fp = "C:\\ab\\anil"
2. >>> unicode(fp, "unicode_escape")
3. u'C:\x07b\x07nil'
4. >>> fp = "C:\\ab\\unil"
5. >>> unicode(fp, "unicode_escape")
6.
7. Traceback (most recent call last):
8.   File "<pyshell#41>", line 1, in <module>
9.     unicode(fp, "unicode_escape")
10. UnicodeDecodeError: 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position
5-9: end of string in escape sequence
11. >>>

Not sure whether I am doing something wrong or this is as designed behavior
.
any help appreciated

What is your intent? Below gives a unicode strings with backslashes. No need for unicode_escape here.

fp = "C:\\ab\\unil"
fp
'C:\\ab\\unil'
print fp
C:\ab\unil
unicode(fp)
u'C:\\ab\\unil'
print unicode(fp)
C:\ab\unil
u'C:\\ab\\unil'
u'C:\\ab\\unil'
print u'C:\\ab\\unil'
C:\ab\unil



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