UnicodeDecodeError: problem when path contain folder start with character 'u

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> aberry <aberry at aol.in> (a) a écrit:

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

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

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

Calling unicode(fp, "unicode_escape") with these filenames is nonsense. 
unicode_escape is for transforming a string like \u20ac to a €-sign or
vice versa:

>>> fp="\\u20ac"
>>> print unicode(fp,"unicode_escape")
€

So what are you trying to achieve?


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