Running cookiecutter command on windows does not work

[anirbanroywillow]

I tried installing this repo using cookiecutter on 2 different PC's. They keep failing with the same error.

PS C:\Users<USERNAME><DRIVE>\Desktop\1.Projects> python -m cookiecutter https://github.com/italomaia/flask-empty
[1/17] project_name (Your Project Name): test
[2/17] repo_name (test):
[3/17] version (0.1):
[4/17] use_sql_sqlite (yes): no
[5/17] use_sql_postgres (no):
[6/17] use_sql_mysql (no): yes
[7/17] use_sql_cockroachdb (no):
[8/17] use_nosql_mongodb (no):
[9/17] use_admin (no):
[10/17] use_security (yes):
[11/17] use_rest (yes):
[12/17] use_socketio (yes):
[13/17] use_async_tasks (yes):
[14/17] use_http_mixin (yes):
[15/17] serve_static_files (yes):
[16/17] create_index_view (yes):
[17/17] json_friendly (yes):
File "C:\Users<USER>\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpj8dljd6h.py", line 42
'_output_dir': 'C:\Users/<USERNAME><DRIVE>\Desktop\1.Projects',
^
SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape
ERROR: Stopping generation because post_gen_project hook script didn't exit successfully
Hook script failed (exit status: 1)

Not sure what the issue is though.

[anirbanroywillow]

Ran it in WSL. Works without an issue. Windows file system. particularly "\" symbol is not supported.

[pampersrocker]

The path is treated as a literal string and tries to escape the \ paths from windows. A potential fix is to treat them as raw strings instead: lab132@97fcfae