I have a filepath that is structured as abcxyzfile.xlsx

I need the first section excluding the file name abcxyz with the two in the beginning and the additional one at the end as a string to be stored as a variable ie:

variable1 = “abcxyz”

Whenever I try and store the string it raises SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal

How do I correctly write this so that it doesn’t raise an error and keeps all of the ?

I have tried adding an r before the “” or using ” and “”” “””, all raise the same error.