Parsing JSON with backslashes

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Two errors in this path because of escape characters.

>>> s = "c:\users\accounts\desktop\reports" # Removed last \
  File "<interactive input>", line 1
SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \uXXXX escape

>>> # Fix 
>>> s = "c:\\users\\accounts\\desktop\\reports\\"
>>> s
'c:\\users\\accounts\\desktop\\reports\\'
>>> 

Do no use single \ in file paths.

import json
from pprint import pprint

def read_json_config():
    with open('c.json') as json_data:
        json_config_file = json.load(json_data)
        pprint(json_config_file)

read_json_config()

Output:
{'ClientID': '8477295f-405',
 'ClientSecret': '10f35a425670847eb63d9b1954592d2b8305cd87e3',
 'ConsoleName': 'UK PS',
 'DomainController': '10.0.1.20',
 'ReportFilePath': 'c:\\users\\accounts\\desktop\\reports',
 'ReportName': 'Unprotected_Machines_',
 'SearchDomain': 'dc=domain,dc=co,dc=uk',
 'SearchUser': 'domain\\dap.l',
 'SearchUserPassword': 'password'}