Problems with pd.read_csv
Question: I have Anaconda 3 on Windows 10. I am using pd.read_csv() to load csv files
but I get error messages. To begin with I tried `df =
pd.read_csv('C:\direct_marketing.csv')` which worked and the file was
imported.

Then I tried `df = pd.read_csv('C:\tutorial.csv')` and I received the
following error message:

    
    
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    
      File "<ipython-input-3-ce208cc2684f>", line 1, in <module>
        df = pd.read_csv('C:\tutorial.csv')
    
      File "C:\Users\Alexandros_7\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py", line 562, in parser_f
        return _read(filepath_or_buffer, kwds)
    
      File "C:\Users\Alexandros_7\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py", line 315, in _read
        parser = TextFileReader(filepath_or_buffer, **kwds)
    
      File "C:\Users\Alexandros_7\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py", line 645, in __init__
        self._make_engine(self.engine)
    
      File "C:\Users\Alexandros_7\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py", line 799, in _make_engine
        self._engine = CParserWrapper(self.f, **self.options)
    
      File "C:\Users\Alexandros_7\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py", line 1213, in __init__
        self._reader = _parser.TextReader(src, **kwds)
    
      File "pandas\parser.pyx", line 358, in pandas.parser.TextReader.__cinit__ (pandas\parser.c:3427)
    
      File "pandas\parser.pyx", line 628, in pandas.parser.TextReader._setup_parser_source (pandas\parser.c:6861)
    
    OSError: File b'C:\tutorial.csv' does not exist
    

Then I moved the file to a new folder and renamed it and again used read.csv()
to import it:

    
    
    df = pd.read_csv('C:\Users\test.csv')
    

This time I received a different error message:

    
    
      File "<ipython-input-5-03c6d380c174>", line 1
        df = pd.read_csv('C:\Users\test.csv')
                        ^
    SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape
    

Could you help me understand what is going on and how to handle this
situation?

Thanks a lot!


Answer: Try escaping the backslashes:

    
    
    df = pd.read_csv('C:\\Users\\test.csv')
    

