Why is the text located inside the multi-line comment causing a syntax error in my python script? /u/Draggador Python Education

(edit: it was resolved by appending “r” in the beginning of the comment, just before the quotation marks, to turn it into a raw string)

terminal console messages for my command:

PS C:Usersdev> python 'C:a-c-151_(o-c-091)uk-land-registry-data-pipeline.py'

File "C:a-c-151_(o-c-091)uk-land-registry-data-pipeline.py", line 315

"""

^^^

SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 6-7: truncated UXXXXXXXX escape

PS C:Usersdev>

relevant part of the code (the lines from 313 to 323):

# terminal output log saved below

"""

PS C:Usersdev> cd 'C:a-c-151_(o-c-091)'

PS C:a-c-151_(o-c-091)> python 'C:a-c-151_(o-c-091)uk-land-registry-data-pipeline.py'

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "C:a-c-151_(o-c-091)uk-land-registry-data-pipeline.py", line 8, in <module>

import geopandas as gpd

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'geopandas'

PS C:a-c-151_(o-c-091)>

"""

(edit: it was resolved by appending “r” in the beginning of the comment, just before the quotation marks, to turn it into a raw string)

terminal console messages for my command:

PS C:Usersdev> python 'C:a-c-151_(o-c-091)uk-land-registry-data-pipeline.py'

File "C:a-c-151_(o-c-091)uk-land-registry-data-pipeline.py", line 315

"""

^^^

SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 6-7: truncated UXXXXXXXX escape

PS C:Usersdev>

relevant part of the code (the lines from 313 to 323):

# terminal output log saved below

"""

PS C:Usersdev> cd 'C:a-c-151_(o-c-091)'

PS C:a-c-151_(o-c-091)> python 'C:a-c-151_(o-c-091)uk-land-registry-data-pipeline.py'

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "C:a-c-151_(o-c-091)uk-land-registry-data-pipeline.py", line 8, in <module>

import geopandas as gpd

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'geopandas'

PS C:a-c-151_(o-c-091)>

"""