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

[Dave Angel]

On 05/10/2015 05:10 PM, zljubisicmob at gmail.com wrote:
>> No, we can't see what ROOTDIR is, since you read it from the config
>> file.  And you don't show us the results of those prints.  You don't
>> even show us the full exception, or even the line it fails on.
>
> Sorry I forgot. This is the output of the script:
>
> C:\Python34\python.exe C:/Users/zoran/PycharmProjects/mm_align/bckslash_test.py
> C:\Users\zoran\hrt
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "C:/Users/zoran/PycharmProjects/mm_align/bckslash_test.py", line 43, in <module>
>      with open(src_file, mode='w', encoding='utf-8') as s_file:
> FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Users\\zoran\\hrt\\src_70._godišnjica_pobjede_nad_fašizmom_Zašto_većina_čelnika_Europske_unije_bojkotira_vojnu_paradu_u_Moskvi__Kako_će_se_obljetnica_pobjede_nad_nacističkom_Njemačkom_i_njenim_satelitima_obilježiti_u_našoj_zemlji__Hoće_li_Josip_Broz_Tito_o.txt'
> 70._godišnjica_pobjede_nad_fašizmom_Zašto_većina_čelnika_Europske_unije_bojkotira_vojnu_paradu_u_Moskvi__Kako_će_se_obljetnica_pobjede_nad_nacističkom_Njemačkom_i_njenim_satelitima_obilježiti_u_našoj_zemlji__Hoće_li_Josip_Broz_Tito_o
> 260 C:\Users\zoran\hrt\src_70._godišnjica_pobjede_nad_fašizmom_Zašto_većina_čelnika_Europske_unije_bojkotira_vojnu_paradu_u_Moskvi__Kako_će_se_obljetnica_pobjede_nad_nacističkom_Njemačkom_i_njenim_satelitima_obilježiti_u_našoj_zemlji__Hoće_li_Josip_Broz_Tito_o.txt
> 260 C:\Users\zoran\hrt\des_70._godišnjica_pobjede_nad_fašizmom_Zašto_većina_čelnika_Europske_unije_bojkotira_vojnu_paradu_u_Moskvi__Kako_će_se_obljetnica_pobjede_nad_nacističkom_Njemačkom_i_njenim_satelitima_obilježiti_u_našoj_zemlji__Hoće_li_Josip_Broz_Tito_o.txt
>
> Process finished with exit code 1
>
> Cfg file has the following contents:
>
> C:\Users\zoran\PycharmProjects\mm_align\hrt3.cfg contents
> [Dir]
> ROOTDIR = C:\Users\zoran\hrt
>
>> I doubt that the problem is in the ROODIR value, but of course nothing
>> in your program bothers to check that that directory exists.  I expect
>> you either have too many characters total, or the 232th character is a
>> strange one.  Or perhaps title has a backslash in it (you took care of
>> forward slash).
>
> How to determine that?

Probably by calling os.path.isdir()

>
>> While we're at it, if you do have an OS limitation on size, your code is
>> truncating at the wrong point.  You need to truncate the title based on
>> the total size of src_file and dst_file, and since the code cannot know
>> the size of ROOTDIR, you need to include that in your figuring.
>
> Well, in my program I am defining a file name as category-id-description.mp3.
> If the file is too long I am cutting description (it wasn't clear from my example).

Since you've got non-ASCII characters in that name, the utf-8 version of 
the name will be longer.  I don't run Windows, but perhaps it's just a 
length problem after all.



-- 
DaveA