[Tutor] problem in opening files

[Alan Gauld]

On 24/06/12 19:17, promis at yorku.ca wrote:

>   >>> 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

Python is not psychic. It cannot guess where your file lives so it just 
looks in the current directory - the one from which you ran Python.
If that's not where the file exists then you get an error.,
You need to provide the full path to the file or run the program from 
the same folder where the file lives.

You can get similar problems if you don't have the right access 
permissions but since you created this file that's not going to
be the problem here.


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Alan G
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/