[Tutor] problem in opening files

[Craig Cesareo]

Be sure your current working directory is your desktop.

import os
print os.getcwd()

Otherwise specify the full path to the text file. r'c:\users....\mort.txt'

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On Jun 24, 2012, at 11:28 AM, "promis at yorku.ca" <promis at yorku.ca> wrote:

> I'm am just new to  Python, and am having trouble  getting started. I am trying to open  files of data  that  I want to work on, and keep on getting a message that  no such  file   exist.  For example here is a copy of  what I've typed and the error message
> 
> 
> >>> fo = open('mort.txt')  THIS IS WHAT I TYPED    AND THE MESSAGE FOLLOWS
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in <module>
>   fo = open('mort.txt')
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'mort.txt'
>>>> 
> 
> The file  mort.txt certainly seems to me to exist. I can see it on my desktop.  It was a small  sample file that I just created to  test this out. At first I was just  using 'mort', which is what appears on my desktop,  but  it was suggested to  me that I should include the extension  .txt, which I have verified is the correct extension, so that's not the problem anymore.  I have  in fact tried this with a number of files  and I get the same message every time.    I am using   Python versus  3.2.2. ,  on a MAC  with system    OS  10.6.8 .
> 
> Any help  would  be  appreciated
> 
> David
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