unicode error unicodeescape codec can t decode bytes in position 2-3 truncated UXXXXXXXX escape

Question

import pandas as pd
data=pd.read_csv("C:\Users\Welcome\Desktop\Sales.csv",encoding='latin1')
print(data.head())

Answer 1

You are getting this error because you are using the path to the file as a string. Change that line to something like this:

pandas.read_csv(r"C:\Users\Welcome\Desktop\Sales.csv",encoding='latin1')

Hope it helps :)

Comments

Yes it really helped!!...but may i know the interpretaion of keeping r and latin1 at the ends?

Thank you.

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Hey, @kamala,

The latin-1 encoding in Python implements ISO_8859-1:1987 which maps all possible byte values the first 256 Unicode code points and thus ensures decoding errors will never occur regardless of the configured error handler.

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And, another method could be to simply replace all the back slashes with forward slashes in the address and all other things same.  :)

(Both of them do work for me.)

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Thanks that help

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Thanks from my side too

Answer 2

This error occurs because you are using a normal string as a path. You can use one of the three following solutions to fix your problem:

1: Just put r before your normal string it converts normal string to raw string:

pandas.read_csv(r"C:\Users\DeePak\Desktop\myac.csv")

2:

pandas.read_csv("C:/Users/DeePak/Desktop/myac.csv")

3:

pandas.read_csv("C:\\Users\\DeePak\\Desktop\\myac.csv")

Answer 3

Solution 1: Add a “r” character in the beginning of string. in Python, when we add a “r” character, it's meaning a complete string. Solution 2: Change “\” to be “/”. Solution 3: Change “\” to be “\\”.

You should use a raw string to avoid such behaviour (r"xxx")

tables = camelot.read_pdf(r"C:\Users\stanleychen\Desktop\MR2-PL1.pdf")