SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape

[RalfGermany]

Code:
import pandas as pd

encoding='iso-8859-1'

personalLoans = pd.read_excel('C:\Users\Ralf\Downloads\DL201\Bank_Personal_Loan_Modelling.xlsx',sheet_name=1)

personalLoans.sample(5)

Error:
File "/tmp/ipykernel_33/1416280869.py", line 3
personalLoans = pd.read_excel('C:\Users\Ralf\Downloads\DL201\Bank_Personal_Loan_Modelling.xlsx',sheet_name=1)
^
SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape

Attention:
Copy the file Bank_Personal_Loan_Modelling.xlsx here on unpackAI/DL201 to your local computer into Downloads

[Philanoe]

Hi Ralf,

I just tried your code after downoading the file on my own computer (Windows 10)
Here is my code

import pandas as pd
personalLoans = pd.read_excel('C:\DataBase_for_AI\Bank_Personal_Loan_Modelling.xlsx',sheet_name=1)
print(personalLoans.sample(5))

He worked for me after I installed openpyxl on my computer.
I am using python 3.9.7 on Spyder

I had no error for the following code too :
print("test 3")
personalLoans = pd.read_excel(u"E:\DataBase_for_AI\Bank_Personal_Loan_Modelling.xlsx",sheet_name=1)
print(personalLoans.shape)

print("test 4")
personalLoans = pd.read_excel(r"E:\DataBase_for_AI\Bank_Personal_Loan_Modelling.xlsx",sheet_name=1)
print(personalLoans.shap

My script was saved into a python file, encoded as UTF-8. Is it the case for yours ?