(unicode error) ‘unicodeescape’ codec can’t decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: “Unicode Error “unicodeescape” codec can’t decode bytes… Cannot open text files in Python 3 [duplicate] (10 answers) Closed 2 years ago. I’m trying to read a .csv file into Python (Spyder) but I keep getting an error. My code: import csv data = open(“C:\Users\miche\Documents\school\jaar2\MIK\2.6\vektis_agb_zorgverlener”) data = csv.reader(data) print(data) I … Read more

“Unicode Error “unicodeescape” codec can’t decode bytes… Cannot open text files in Python 3 [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: Windows path in Python (6 answers) Closed 2 years ago. The community reviewed whether to reopen this question 3 months ago and left it closed: Original close reason(s) were not resolved I am using Python 3.1 on a Windows 7 machine. Russian is the default system language, and utf-8 … Read more

Unicode (UTF-8) reading and writing to files in Python

I’m having some brain failure in understanding reading and writing text to a file (Python 2.4). # The string, which has an a-acute in it. ss = u’Capit\xe1n’ ss8 = ss.encode(‘utf8′) repr(ss), repr(ss8) (“u’Capit\xe1n’”, “‘Capit\xc3\xa1n’”) print ss, ss8 print >> open(‘f1′,’w’), ss8 >>> file(‘f1’).read() ‘Capit\xc3\xa1n\n’ So I type in Capit\xc3\xa1n into my favorite editor, in … Read more

UnicodeDecodeError, invalid continuation byte

Why is the below item failing? Why does it succeed with “latin-1” codec? o = “a test of \xe9 char” #I want this to remain a string as this is what I am receiving v = o.decode(“utf-8”) Which results in: Traceback (most recent call last): File “<stdin>”, line 1, in <module> File “C:\Python27\lib\encodings\utf_8.py”, line 16, … Read more

How to correct TypeError: Unicode-objects must be encoded before hashing?

I have this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File “python_md5_cracker.py”, line 27, in <module> m.update(line) TypeError: Unicode-objects must be encoded before hashing when I try to execute this code in Python 3.2.2: import hashlib, sys m = hashlib.md5() hash = “” hash_file = input(“What is the file name in which the hash resides? “) … Read more