Error: SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character (<string>, line 1)

When trying to run a python script on the unreal (4.27) cmd I am always getting

Error: SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character (, line 1)

test.py

import unreal

unreal.log(“HELLO UE”)

The unreal.py stub has been generated and added to the project as indicated in the documentation and PyCharm has now the correct intellisense when calling unreal members.

All seems to be OK when it comes to configuration, however scripts will not run.

Any help?

Using UE 4.27 and Python 3.7.7 as it seems to be indicated in docs:

UE4.27 - Python docs