Dec-20-2016, 08:42 AM
Quote:Why don't you use a full path but relative?
My apologies, I'm quite new to programming. I've just been following tutorials with a certain YouTuber (who seems to know what he's doing) And I couldn't find out why, when I copied his exact code, I did not get the same result (it just flat out didn't work). Which led me to believe that perhaps, something was wrong with my path.
Now when you use
file_obj = open('file_name.txt', 'a')From what I understand from your post, this allows you to open files from anywhere within the working directory? It seems like when I go to actually write the file (there is no file created yet) it does not create it, with the code that I am using in the original post.
Perhaps I should take a step back from trying to understand this, but when I delve into trying to learn, it's always in the back of my head that I don't understand directories or how to navigate to files within python.
For example: With my current python install directory, a few sources say that from within CMD, I should be able to just type
python example.py, no matter where the current directory is that I'm currently inside of (within cmd). This is not the case. It always gives me C:\Users\Aaron>python test1.py
python: can't open file 'test1.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
when in fact, test1.py exists inside my scripts subfolder of Python35-32 (Main directory) . Do I have a fundamental misunderstanding about how this concept works? The help that I read on this specifically stated that I should be able to run any .py file, regardless of where I have it, as long as the main "Python35-32" directory is above everything else.
Thank you for your response, by the way. I really want to understand this.