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PersonC
PersonC

Reputation: 105

In python, Error opening location of tmpfile: No such file or directory exist

I'm studying from 'Coding the matrix' by Philip Klein. In chapter two, there's an example for plotting complex numbers

from plotting import plot

S = {2+2j, 3+2j, 1.75+1j, 2+1j, 2.25+1j, 2.5+1j, 2.75+1j, 3+1j, 3.25+1j}

plot(S, 4)

plotting module: http://resources.codingthematrix.com

When I run the code directly through python in the terminal, it works fine, but when I run it as seperate file "$ python example.py", I get this error:

gvfs-open: file:///tmp/tmpOYFVs8.html: error opening location: Error 
when getting information for file '/tmp/tmpOYFVs8.html': No such file 
or directory

Not sure how to resolve this. Tried to play with module code a bit, but got nowhere.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 371

Answers (2)

Abr001am
Abr001am

Reputation: 591

open plotting.py then patch this

hpath =  os.getcwd() + "/something.html"

Instead or a line after this

hpath = create_temp('.html')

Upvotes: 0

chakradhar kasturi
chakradhar kasturi

Reputation: 689

I checked the code of plotting.py and found out that there is atexit event registered at the end of the code which basically deletes the file when your programs exits.So when you invoke it as script python intrepreter exits which will intern calls atexit register to delete the file.

def remove_at_exit(path):
   atexit.register(os.remove, path)

you can directly comment out the call to remove_at_exit method in plotting.py at line no 92

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Upvotes: 1

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