The script is very simple (abc.txt exists in ROOTDIR directory):
import os
import shutil
ROOTDIR = 'C:\Users\zoran'
file1 = os.path.join(ROOTDIR, 'abc.txt')
file2 = os.path.join(ROOTDIR, 'def.txt')
shutil.move(file1, file2)
But it returns the following error:
C:\Python34\python.exe C:/Users/bckslash_test.py
File "C:/Users/bckslash_test.py", line 4
ROOTDIR = 'C:\Users'
^
SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in
position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape
Process finished with exit code 1
As I saw, I could solve the problem by changing line 4 to (small letter "r"
before string:
ROOTDIR = r'C:\Users\zoran'
but that is not an option for me because I am using configparser in order to
read the ROOTDIR from underlying cfg file.
I need a mechanism to read the path string with single backslashes into a
variable, but afterwards to escape every backslash in it.
How to do that?
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