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

The Problem 

I was verifying a piece of code, in that process, I had to use a path like "c:\Users\users\Downloads\". I just copied the path and pest it directly to the code and the error code "SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape" appeared in my jupyter notebook. 

The Solution 

Then as usual I searched on the internet by the whole error code and found out the followings.

1. this error is due to the escape character. It is a common error in Python.

2. there are several solutions to this but what I like the most is adding the character 'r' at the beginning of the string

        ex. in my case my path should be written like 

            path = r'c:\Users\user\Downloads\file.txt'

that solved my problem. 

for other solution to the problem, and further quarry I would suggest you should visit this article.