variable (str)

Question

I want to give the value of the variable the address of the file but nothing succeeds
I enter:
r="C:\Users\User\Desktop\Promo.txt"

error:
SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape

Where was I wrong?

Answer 1

In Python the character '\' have special meaning inside a string to remove that meaning prepend the string with the character 'r':

r = r"C:\Users\User\Desktop\Promo.txt"

Another way is to escape the '\' with another one:

r = "C:\\Users\\User\\Desktop\\Promo.txt"