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i got this error message:

SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 0-9: illegal Unicode character

what does the part bytes in position 0-9 refer to?

It's the index illegal characters in your byte object, that can't be decoded with Unicode-escape.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/except...icodeError

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The first index of invalid data in object.

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The index after the last invalid data in object.

i found the problem. the code exceeded 0x010ffff (1114111) and thus was not valid unicode and so it could not be encoded into utf-8.