I have a geoprocessing service that fails because the server adds two strings to the data variables

[WilsonIonara]

I have a geoprocessing service that breaks because the server adds two strings to the data variables. The code snippet is: 

dir_path = r'e:\ArcGISData\ForestEcosystemValuesData'
arcpy.AddMessage(dir_path)
# root = r'E:\ArcGISData\ForestEcosystemValuesData\ForestValuesApp.gdb'
workspace = os.path.join(dir_path, 'ForestValuesApp.gdb')
arcpy.env.workspace = workspace
arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True
CS = 30
CONV = 0.000247105381
ZONEFIELD = 'SAID'
AOITotalAreaAcres = 0
root = arcpy.env.workspace
urban = os.path.join(root, 'AOIUrbanVector')
rasterList = ['uBiodiversity', 'uClimate',  'uCultural', 'uEconomic',  'uHumanHealth', 'uWatershed',  'rBiodiversity', 'rClimate', 'rCultural', 'rWatershed']
tempPolygon = r'in_memory\temp1'
memo = "in_memory"

And when I open the script on the server folder I have this, it adds a string (a') to one of the variables and another string (db') to the other variable: 

g_ESRI_variable_1 = 'E:\\ArcGISData\\ForestEcosystemValuesData'a'

g_ESRI_variable_2 = 'E:\\ArcGISData\\ForestEcosystemValuesData/ForestValuesApp.gdb'db'

g_ESRI_variable_3 = 'in_memory\\temp1'

g_ESRI_variable_4 = 'SAID'

g_ESRI_variable_6 = 'in_memory/'

g_ESRI_variable_7 = 'in_memory\\urbanaoipoly3'

g_ESRI_variable_8 = 'UrbanID'

And this is the error returned on the app: 

File "E:\arcgisserver\directories\arcgissystem\arcgisinput\ForestEcosystemValues\EcoNewGP.GPServer\extracted\p20\forestecosystemvaluesdata\LATEST_CHANGEURBANNOPARAMS CLEAN NO PARAMS3.py", line 5
g_ESRI_variable_1 = 'E:\\ArcGISData\\ForestEcosystemValuesData'a'
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

My coworkers are able to publish the geoprocessing service with no errors. What is going with my publishing? Thanks

[ShaunWalbridge]

This sounds like a known logged bug, BUG-000147516, which unfortunately doesn't help you immediately. It may be easiest to fix the replaced strings on the server, or as a workaround, construct your path variables all as  os.path.join elements, and remove the one hiding inside of the comment.

Best wishes, Shaun

[WilsonIonara]

But how do you explain that it works on my coworkers computers, when they publish from theirs? It is the same code. How can I change the dir_path, in this case? 

dir_path = r'e:\ArcGISData\ForestEcosystemValuesData'
arcpy.AddMessage(dir_path)
workspace = os.path.join(dir_path, 'ForestValuesApp.gdb')
arcpy.env.workspace = workspace
arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True
AOITotalAreaAcres = 0
root = arcpy.env.workspace
urban = os.path.join(root, 'AOIUrbanVector')

[ShaunWalbridge]

It may be that your coworkers are on different versions of the software, or there are specific circumstances where this bug is introduced that aren't universal, I haven't dug into it sufficiently to say. In terms of the path, could you try something like:

dir_path = os.path.join(r'E:\ArcGISData', 'ForestEcosystemValuesData')

If it persists as an issue despite 'hacks' like these, it may be worth seeing if using a different project location has any effect.