put path of a file in a string in python

i want to put a path in a string but in some places like some where have \n in the path i give an error

code:
import pygame

pygame.init()
icon = 'C:\Users\treed\PycharmProjects\pythonProject1'
pygame.image.load(icon)

and the error:

  File "C:\Users\treed\PycharmProjects\pythonProject1\pythaon - Copy.py", line 4
    icon = 'C:\Users\treed\PycharmProjects\pythonProject1'
                                                          ^
SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape

Process finished with exit code 1

how can i put path in a string?

>Solution :

Maybe?

icon = "C:\\Users\\treed\\PycharmProjects\\pythonProject1"
pygame.image.load(icon)