Do no use single
\
in path,because can be looked at as escape characters.>>> s = 'C:\Users' File "<interactive input>", line 1 SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape >>> # Fix >>> s = r'C:\Users' >>> s 'C:\\Users' # Or >>> s = 'C:/Users' >>> s 'C:/Users'