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YoungMin Park
YoungMin Park

Reputation: 1189

Visual Studio Code: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

When I load files via Visual Studio Code, VScode can't find directory.

I can run code without issue with terminal, result is:

young@young-desktop:/media/young/5e7be152-8ed5-483d-a8e8-b3fecfa221dc/text/mycodehtml/pracdl/golbin/TensorFlow-Tutorials/10_RNN/ChatBot$ python text_load_text.py 
['fij\n', 'feijfaef\n', 'ef\n', 'awef\n', 'awe\n', 'g\n', 'aweg\n', 'ae\n', 'wg\n', 'awe\n', 'h\n', 'aw\n', 'h\n', 'aw\n', 'ef\n', 'aweg\n', 'wea\n', 'gaw\n', 'eg\n', '\n']

But with VScode:

young@young-desktop:/media/young/5e7be152-8ed5-483d-a8e8-b3fecfa221dc/text/mycodehtml/pracdl/golbin/TensorFlow-Tutorials$ cd /media/young/5e7be152-8ed5-483d-a8e8-b3fecfa221dc/text/mycodehtml/pracdl/golbin/TensorFlow-Tutorials ; env "PYTHONIOENCODING=UTF-8" "PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1" /home/young/anaconda3/bin/python /home/young/.vscode/extensions/ms-python.python-2018.6.0/pythonFiles/PythonTools/visualstudio_py_launcher.py /media/young/5e7be152-8ed5-483d-a8e8-b3fecfa221dc/text/mycodehtml/pracdl/golbin/TensorFlow-Tutorials 39707 34806ad9-833a-4524-8cd6-18ca4aa74f14 RedirectOutput,RedirectOutput /media/young/5e7be152-8ed5-483d-a8e8-b3fecfa221dc/text/mycodehtml/pracdl/golbin/TensorFlow-Tutorials/10_RNN/ChatBot/text_load_text.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/media/young/5e7be152-8ed5-483d-a8e8-b3fecfa221dc/text/mycodehtml/pracdl/golbin/TensorFlow-Tutorials/10_RNN/ChatBot/text_load_text.py", line 8, in <module>
    with open('test.txt', 'r') as f:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'test.txt'

What causes this issue?

test.txt file originally is intended to be located in ./data/test.txt

So I tested 

with open('./data/test.txt', 'r') as f:

But it failed with VScode

So I tried to move test.txt file to working directory with trying:

with open('test.txt', 'r') as f:

and

with open('./test.txt', 'r') as f:

But all failed with VScode.

Upvotes: 12

Views: 69202

Answers (7)

OfirD
OfirD

Reputation: 10490

By default, VS Code runs the program such that the current working directory is the workspace folder. So when the program is being run, the integrated terminal cd to that folder (see this answer), and expects to find files over there.

To make the program run in the current working directory, we can add "cwd": "${fileDirname}" to launch.json file:

{
    // Use IntelliSense to learn about possible attributes.
    // Hover to view descriptions of existing attributes.
    // For more information, visit: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=830387
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [                
                    
        {
            "name": "Python: Current File",
            "type": "python",
            "request": "launch",
            "program": "${file}",
            "console": "integratedTerminal",
            "cwd": "${fileDirname}"        
            
        }
    ]
}

Now go back to your program file and run it (don't accidently try to run launch.json itself, it won't work :).

Upvotes: 0

Armanzarei
Armanzarei

Reputation: 169

Try this: enable the below option in your VSCode python setting

When executing a file in the terminal, whether to use execute in the file's directory, instead of the current open folder

Upvotes: 16

soheil zabihi
soheil zabihi

Reputation: 159

First of all, get the directory of the module that is currently running by os.path.dirname(__file__). Then, you can join the relative path of your desire file to this directory path.

from os.path import dirname, join
current_dir = dirname(__file__)
file_path = join(current_dir, "./test.txt")
with open(file_path, 'r') as f:

Upvotes: 12

ruwbdy
ruwbdy

Reputation: 1

just place the txt file in the same folder where the .py file you are running the code from is.

i.e my code is in dile.py which is in a folder "python program". Place the txt file in that folder

Upvotes: 0

Almuntasir Abir
Almuntasir Abir

Reputation: 318

Make sure you are in the directory that your .txt file is on in your terminal or command prompt.

In your terminal cd into the directory that holds the text file and .py file , run the program and it should work fine.

Upvotes: 0

TheoreticallyNick
TheoreticallyNick

Reputation: 242

I had an identical issue when trying to run a python script in VScode. Turns out, the function I needed to use was os.chdir('path'), and not sys.path.append('path')

This issue was specific to VScode. VScode was running the script out of the wrong directory. I found out what directory it was in using print(os.listdir()), and then changed the directory accordingly. Here's a snippet of the code that helped me resolve this. 

import sys, os
print(os.listdir())
os.chdir('C:\\*****\\dir')
print(os.listdir())

Upvotes: 4

YoungMin Park
YoungMin Park

Reputation: 1189

When I open this project, I opened it as "TensorFlow-Tutorials" folder.

So my working directory was:

young@young-desktop:/media/young/5e7be152-8ed5-483d-a8e8-b3fecfa221dc/text/mycodehtml/pracdl/golbin/TensorFlow-Tutorials

So "." indicates TensorFlow-Tutorials path
In this reason, following path fails to find file

with open('./test.txt', 'r') as f:

Solution is adding additional part to indicate my real target directory precisely:

with open("./10_RNN/ChatBot/test.txt", 'r') as f:
    x = f.readlines()
print(x)

Upvotes: 1

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