Import numpy throws error: SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \uXXXX escape
<p>I have installed <code>pyzo</code> and <code>miniconda</code> under Windows 10 and installed <code>numpy</code> and <code>matplotlib</code> using <code>conda install</code>. But when I'm trying to run </p>

<pre><code>import numpy as np 
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt 
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<p>I'm getting this error:</p>

<pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "&lt;tmp 1&gt;", line 3, in &lt;module&gt;
    import numpy
  File "c:\users\jakub\miniconda3\lib\site-packages\numpy\__init__.py", line 165, in &lt;module&gt;
    from numpy.__config__ import show as show_config
  File "c:\users\jakub\miniconda3\lib\site-packages\numpy\__config__.py", line 5
    lapack_mkl_info={'libraries': ['mkl_lapack95_lp64', 'mkl_core_dll', 'mkl_intel_lp64_dll', 'mkl_intel_thread_dll'], 'define_macros': [('SCIPY_MKL_H', None), ('HAVE_CBLAS', None)], 'include_dirs': ['c:\users\jakub\miniconda3\\Library\\include'], 'library_dirs': ['c:\users\jakub\miniconda3\\Library\\lib']}
                                                                                                                                                                                                       ^
SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \uXXXX escape
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<p>I do not have any non-standard character either in my code nor in the directory structure...I have read many posts referring to similar problems with UTF-8 but this is different as it happens during the initial import.</p>