SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 7-8: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape code example

Example 1: SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 15-16: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape

"c:\\user\\path\\to\\file"
r"c:\user\path\to\file
# this happens because \u is the default escape code for unicode and is fixed
# either by using double slashes (no \u anymore) or converting to raw string

Example 2: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe7 in position 5: invalid continuation byte

pd.read_csv('ml-100k/u.item', sep='|', names=m_cols , encoding='latin-1')