[Tutor] referring to subfolders
Steve Willoughby
steve at alchemy.com
Sat Jan 17 06:26:52 CET 2009
Che M wrote:
> I have been using absolute paths in my programs, but
> want to get out of the habit as I try to run them on
> other computers. I was surprised to find that this
> type of reference didn't work:
>
> path = '/subfolder/myfile.py'
Pathnames are relative by default. So:
'myfile.py'
would be the file myfile.py in the current directory.
'subfolder/myfile.py'
would be myfile.py inside subfolder, which is below the current directory.
It's the initial / character which makes it absolute, and start from the
root directory.
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