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Liondancer
Liondancer

Reputation: 16469

reading files in another directory and passing as input

If I am in the directory ~/a/b/c/d. I want a program called hithere.py and in that program I want to pass some input that is found in file hi.txt and is located in directory b. How would I do so?

I tried f = open("~/a/b/hi.txt","r") but I get the error No such file or directory

Upvotes: 0

Views: 113

Answers (2)

Alex Dvoretsky
Alex Dvoretsky

Reputation: 948

Tilde is bash stuff - you can't use it without bash. So try something like 

f = open("../../hi.txt","r")

Upvotes: 2

tttthomasssss
tttthomasssss

Reputation: 5971

You need to use os.path.expanduser(), as python doesn't automatically expand paths, so try this:

import os

f = open(os.path.expanduser('~/a/b/hi.txt'), 'r')

Upvotes: 4

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