无法创建目录和子目录

Question

So, I'm trying to make folders and subfolders based on date variables. I am getting this error. Can someone assist? The code and the error message is as shown below.

for date in date_list:
    year = date.year
    month = date.month
    day = date.day
    newpath = f'C:\Users\divya\OneDrive\Desktop\8th Sem\ISB assignment\{year}'
    if not os.path.exists(newpath):
        os.makedirs(newpath)
    newpath1 = f'C:\Users\divya\OneDrive\Desktop\8th Sem\ISB assignment\{year}\{month}'
    if not os.path.exists(newpath1):
        os.makedirs(newpath1)
    newpath2 = f'C:\Users\divya\OneDrive\Desktop\8th Sem\ISB assignment\{year}\{month}\{day}'
    if not os.path.exists(newpath2):
        os.makedirs(newpath2)
    get_batsmen(date).to_csv(newpath2+'/batsmen.csv')
    get_bowler(date).to_csv(newpath2+'/bowler.csv')
    get_allrounder(date).to_csv(newpath2+'/allrounder.csv')

And the error message is as follows:

File "c:\Users\divya\OneDrive\Desktop\8th Sem\ISB assignment\main.py", line 67
    newpath = f'C:\Users\divya\OneDrive\Desktop\8th Sem\ISB assignment\{year}'
             ^
SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape

Answer 1

The backlash is the escape character in Python, so when python sees \U it interprets it as the start of a unicode character (which takes the form \UXXXXXXXX , hence the error text), and not a regular "backlash U".

You can get a 'real' backslash by putting another backslash before it, so the full string becomes something like "C:\\Users\\username\\path\\to\\directory" .