python scikits.audiolab Sndfile special chars in file name

[MRAB]

On 2014-08-19 13:14, Furqan wasi wrote:
>
> Getting this
>
> file = ur"C:\Users\Furqan\Desktop\查找問題Reference\1.wav"
> SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'rawunicodeescape' codec can't decode 
> bytes in position 2-3: truncated \uXXXX
>
Ouch! That's Python 2 treating \U as the start of a Unicode escape, even 
though it's in a raw string. That doesn't happen in Python 3 (which is 
what I use nowadays).

Fortunately, Windows will accept / instead of \ in paths, which also 
means that you don't have to make it a raw string:

file = u"C:/Users/Furqan/Desktop/查找問題Reference/1.wav"

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> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 4:05 PM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com 
> <mailto:python at mrabarnett.plus.com>> wrote:
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>     On 2014-08-19 09:05, Furqan wasi wrote:
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>         *Hi Mark and all, *
>
>
>                   Thanks for the replay i appreciate your help but the
>         problem i
>         have is not with the FileNotFoundError exception handling
>         because the
>         file exists but the problem is that the library libsndfile/Sndfile
>         (python third party) which is child class/module of
>         scikits.audiolab
>         (python third party) is not reading file with special
>         character in its
>         path and name , i need some help to in how to make library
>         libsndfile/Sndfile to read file with special character in it  i.e
>         C:\Users\Furqan\Desktop\test\查找問題daw\查找問題d.wav, as i
>         mentioned
>         in my first email
>
>     I recommend that you use Unicode strings instead of bytestrings:
>
>     track1 = ur'C:\Users\Furqan\Desktop\test\查找問題daw\查找問題d.wav'
>