UnicodeDecodeError: problem when path contain folder start withcharacter 'u

[Mark Tolonen]

"aberry" <aberry at aol.in> wrote in message 
news:24146775.post at talk.nabble.com...
>
> I am facing an error on Unicode decoding of path if it contain a 
> folder/file
> name starting with character 'u' .
>
> Here is what I did in IDLE
> 1. >>> fp = "C:\\ab\\anil"
> 2. >>> unicode(fp, "unicode_escape")
> 3. u'C:\x07b\x07nil'
> 4. >>> fp = "C:\\ab\\unil"
> 5. >>> unicode(fp, "unicode_escape")
> 6.
> 7. Traceback (most recent call last):
> 8.   File "<pyshell#41>", line 1, in <module>
> 9.     unicode(fp, "unicode_escape")
> 10. UnicodeDecodeError: 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in 
> position
> 5-9: end of string in escape sequence
> 11. >>>
>
> Not sure whether I am doing something wrong or this is as designed 
> behavior
> .
> any help appreciated

What is your intent?  Below gives a unicode strings with backslashes.  No 
need for unicode_escape here.

>>> fp = "C:\\ab\\unil"
>>> fp
'C:\\ab\\unil'
>>> print fp
C:\ab\unil
>>> unicode(fp)
u'C:\\ab\\unil'
>>> print unicode(fp)
C:\ab\unil
>>> u'C:\\ab\\unil'
u'C:\\ab\\unil'
>>> print u'C:\\ab\\unil'
C:\ab\unil