Richard D. Moores wrote: > I wrote before that I had pasted the function (convertPath()) from my > initial post into mycalc.py because I had accidentally deleted it from > mycalc.py. And that there was no problem importing it from mycalc. > Well, I was mistaken (for a reason too tedious to go into). There WAS > a problem, the same one as before.
Dave was close, but Steven hit the nail: the string r"C:\Users\Dick\..." is fine, but when you put it into the docstring it is not a raw string within another string, it becomes just a sequence of characters that is part of the outer string. As such \U marks the beginning of a special way to define a unicode codepoint: >>> "\U00000041" 'A' As "sers\Dic", the eight characters following the \U in your docstring, are not a valid hexadecimal number you get an error message. The solution is standard procedure: escape the backslash or use a rawstring: Wrong: >>> """yadda r"C:\Users\Dick\..." yadda""" File "<stdin>", line 1 SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 10-12: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape Correct: >>> """yadda r"C:\\Users\Dick\..." yadda""" 'yadda r"C:\\Users\\Dick\\..." yadda' Also correct: >>> r"""yadda r"C:\Users\Dick\..." yadda""" 'yadda r"C:\\Users\\Dick\\..." yadda' _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
