Python's encode () and decode () methods accept an 'errors' parameter where you can specify strategies like 'ignore', 'replace', or 'xmlcharrefreplace' to handle these issues gracefully without ...

In Python, strings are Unicode by default. You can encode a Unicode string to a bytes object in UTF-8 format using the encode () method, or decode bytes to a string using decode () .

This is fixed in python3 branch. The Python DLL is now loaded using the wide-string Windows API, so any unicode path is allowed.

New issue New issue Closed Closed Windows: SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 3-4: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape #23 ...