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Reputation: 823

Pycharm does not see files in relative path with ../

I am developing a python project using pycharm. However, the problem is that it refuses to load files in which the relative path includes ../. When I try 

self.image = pygame.image.load("../resources/img/prey.png").convert_alpha()

I get:

self.image = pygame.image.load("../resources/img/prey.png").convert_alpha()
pygame.error: Couldn't open ../resources/img/prey.png

The thing is that when running my code from the terminal, it works fine, meaning that the problem is with pycharm.

Now, the problem is that while this originally sounds like many of the other questions in which the directory is not part of the working directory,adding: 

import os
print os.getcwd()

from pycharm gives me /media/Storage/System and dev/Code/Cross Platform/python/boids/current

which seems correct with my directory structure being:

./current
    ./resources
        ./img
            prey.png
    ./objects
        modules_that_I_import.py
    ./experiments
        code_that_I_actually_run.py

The code that runs self.image=pygame.image.load("../resources/img/prey.png").convert_alpha() is in ./objects

I am using Pycharm Community Edition 2016.1.2 on Linux Mint with Python 2.7.

Any help is appreciated.

EDIT

when running os.getcwd from the command line I get /media/Storage/System and dev/Code/Cross Platform/python/boids/current/experiments

Upvotes: 14

Views: 20030

Answers (2)

Suzana
Suzana

Reputation: 4410

I had the same problem when I moved the python file to another directory. In my case, it was enough to delete the run configuration (Run -> Edit Configurations -> Remove Configuration).

Upvotes: 0

user2235698
user2235698

Reputation: 7579

Go to Run - Edit Configurations, select your configuration

Run Configuration editing

and change Working directory to /media/Storage/System and dev/Code/Cross Platform/python/boids/current/experiments.

Working directory editing

Upvotes: 22

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