SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \\UXXXXXXXXX escape , on an image

Question

I would like to add an image, in order to execute a Fourier transform on the image. Here is my code that has the syntax fault at imageio.imread

img1 = imageio.imread("C:\\Users\\Arnold Bailie.spyder-py3\\spyder.lock\\einstein.jpg")

Answer 1

Here, \\U in "C:\\Users\\Arnold Bailie.spyder-py3\\spyder.lock\\einstein.jpg" starts an eight-character Unicode escape, such as \\U00014321 . In your code, the escape is followed by the character "s" which is invalid.

So, you have 3 possibilites

1. use raw string:

img1 = imageio.imread(r"C:\Users\Arnold Bailie.spyder-py3\spyder.lock\einstein.jpg")

2. use double anti slash:

img1 = imageio.imread("C:\\Users\\Arnold Bailie.spyder-py3\\spyder.lock\\einstein.jpg")

3. replace "\\" (anti slash) by "/" (slash)

img1 = imageio.imread("C:/Users/Arnold Bailie.spyder-py3/spyder.lock/einstein.jpg")