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Question

I'm trying to read an csv file into python (spyder) but I keep getting an error. My code looks as follows:

import csv

data = open("C:\Users\miche\Documents\school\jaar2\MIK\2.6\vektis_agb_zorgverlener")
data = csv.reader(data)  
print(data)

and I get the following error:

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

I have tried to replace the \ with \ or with / and I've tried to put an r before "C.. but all these things didn't work. I hope someone can tell me what I have to do.. Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Just putting an r in front works well.

eg:

  white = pd.read_csv(r"C:\Users\hydro\a.csv")

Answer 2

it worked for me by neutralizing the '\' by f = open('F:\\file.csv')