SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 10-11: truncated \xXX escape

This error occurs when you are trying to decode a string that contains escape characters that are not properly formatted. For example, if you have a string that contains "\x" followed by two hexadecimal digits, but the string is truncated and does not contain the full two digits, you will get this error.

To fix this error, you need to make sure that all escape characters in your string are properly formatted and have the correct number of digits. Alternatively, you can use a raw string literal by adding an 'r' before the string to avoid any escape character interpretation.

Here is an example of a raw string literal:

string = r'C:\Users\John\Desktop\file.txt'

In the above example, the 'r' before the string tells Python to treat the string as a raw string literal, which means that any escape characters in the string will not be interpreted.