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In the code below :
from selenium import webdriver
import time

driver = webdriver.Chrome("C:\Users\Miécio\PycharmProjects\Selenium\drivers\chromedriver.exe")
driver.set_page_load_timeout("10")
driver.get("http://google.com.br")
driver.find_element_by_name("q").send_keys("Automação passo a passo")
driver.find_element_by_name("btnK").click()
time.sleep(4)
driver.quit()
generates the error:
Error:
C:\Users\Miécio\PycharmProjects\Selenium\venv\Scripts\python.exe C:/Users/Miécio/PycharmProjects/Selenium/Estudos/01.py File "C:/Users/Miécio/PycharmProjects/Selenium/Estudos/01.py", line 4 driver = webdriver.Chrome("C:\Users\Miécio\PycharmProjects\Selenium\drivers\chromedriver.exe") ^ SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape Process finished with exit code 1
How to fix?
Thanks :)
Don't use backslash in paths on windows. '\U' is one of the escape sequences (there are others).
Use either raw string or forward slash.