Can't set icon in tkinter

ghz 14hours ago ⋅ 6 views 
# Imports
from tkinter import *

# Root
root = Tk()
root.title("Tkinter")
root.iconbitmap("C:\Users\ASUS\Desktop\Python\Tkinter\icon.png")

# Main loop
root.mainloop()

And I keep getting this error:

File "c:\Users\ASUS\Desktop\Python\Tkinter\app.py", line 9
     root.iconbitmap("C:\Users\ASUS\Desktop\Python\Tkinter\icon.png")
                     ^ SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated #\UXXXXXXXX escape

Answer

The error occurs because the backslash (\) in the file path is interpreted as part of an escape sequence in Python strings. For example, \U is treated as the start of a Unicode escape, which is invalid in your case.

To fix this, you can resolve the issue in one of the following ways:

Solution 1: Use a Raw String

Prefix the string with r to make it a raw string, which treats backslashes as literal characters:

root.iconbitmap(r"C:\Users\ASUS\Desktop\Python\Tkinter\icon.png")

Solution 2: Escape the Backslashes

Manually escape each backslash by doubling it:

root.iconbitmap("C:\\Users\\ASUS\\Desktop\\Python\\Tkinter\\icon.png")

Solution 3: Use Forward Slashes

Replace backslashes with forward slashes, which are supported in file paths on Windows:

root.iconbitmap("C:/Users/ASUS/Desktop/Python/Tkinter/icon.png")

Full Corrected Code

Here's the corrected code using the raw string method:

# Imports
from tkinter import *

# Root
root = Tk()
root.title("Tkinter")
root.iconbitmap(r"C:\Users\ASUS\Desktop\Python\Tkinter\icon.png")

# Main loop
root.mainloop()

Any of these solutions should resolve the SyntaxError.

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