Answers for "unicodedecodeerror unicodeescape' codec can t decode byte 0x5c in position 11 at end of string"

(unicode error) ‘unicodeescape’ codec can’t decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape

import pandas

# read the file
pandas.read_csv("C:\\Users\\itsmycode\\Desktop\\test.csv")

unicodedecodeerror unicodeescape' codec can t decode byte 0x5c in position 11 at end of string

# if you get this error you may need to specify an engine 
df = pd.read_excel(r"C:\path\to\file.xlsx", engine='openpyxl')
# if you get the utf-8 codec can't decode byte error 
# you might need to add encoding = "ISO-8859-1" to the end of the csv import
pd.read_csv(r'\\path\to\file.csv',encoding = "ISO-8859-1")