When I append a path, python gives an error

Question

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

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score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 03 '22 at 14:52

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This should do it:

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

answered Dec 03 '22 at 14:52

Cow

thank tou very much – mostafa ghobashy Dec 03 '22 at 14:53
@mostafaghobashy Feel free to accept the answer by clicking the V sign to the left. :) – Cow Dec 03 '22 at 15:01

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 03 '22 at 18:11

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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")

answered Dec 03 '22 at 18:11

Yaman Jain

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