Remove u202a from Python string

Question

I\'m trying to open a file in Python, but I got an error, and in the beginning of the string I got a /u202a character... Does anyone know how to remove it?

Answer 1

you can use this sample code to remove u202a from file path

st="‪‪F:\\somepath\\filename.xlsx"    
data = pd.read_excel(st)

if i try to do this it gives me a OSError and In detail

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "F:\CodeRepo\PythonWorkSpace\demo\removepartofstring.py", line 14, in 
    data = pd.read_excel(st)
  File "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\pandas\util\_decorators.py", line 188, in wrapper
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\pandas\util\_decorators.py", line 188, in wrapper
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\excel.py", line 350, in read_excel
    io = ExcelFile(io, engine=engine)
  File "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\excel.py", line 653, in __init__
    self._reader = self._engines[engine](self._io)
  File "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\excel.py", line 424, in __init__
    self.book = xlrd.open_workbook(filepath_or_buffer)
  File "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\xlrd\__init__.py", line 111, in open_workbook
    with open(filename, "rb") as f:
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '\u202aF:\\somepath\\filename.xlsx'

but if i do that like this

    st="‪‪F:\\somepath\\filename.xlsx" 
    data = pd.read_excel(st.strip("‪u202a")) #replace your string here

Its working for me