Unfortunately, since the Windows separator is also the initiator for diverse special characters or escape in Unicode, it obviously confuses everything. This problem arises because the Windows system uses the backslash “\” as a path separator and Linux uses the slash “/”.
The interpreter doesn’t understand the character sequence \U, since this initiates Unicode characters of a similar sequence. The variables assigned upon execution immediately cause an error: Synta圎rror: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape Step 1: How do I input the right path?Īssuming that you wish to get a listing of a particular path accurately, we start by selecting a user directory on a Windows 10 system, which is basically a reproducible example: path_dir: str = 'C:\Users\sselt\Documents\blog_demo' Moreover, since this isn’t at all complicated, I’d like to take this case to illustrate key best practices recommended for working with paths on drives. Recently while working on a project, a colleague asked whether one could list the content of drives in Python.
