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[rplobue]

alright, noob question: i want to open a file in a directory above the
current one i'm in. I'm trying to use myfile =
open('../thefileiwant.txt', 'r') but the ../ doesn't work. How do i
do it?

 

[Fredrik Lundh]

alright, noob question: i want to open a file in a directory above the
current one i'm in. I'm trying to use myfile =
open('../thefileiwant.txt', 'r') but the ../ doesn't work.

that's how it's usually done. what does "doesn't work" mean in this case?

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[John Machin]

alright, noob question: i want to open a file in a directory above the
current one i'm in. I'm trying to use myfile =
open('../thefileiwant.txt', 'r') but the ../ doesn't work. How do i
do it?

"Doesn't work" means what?
Have you looked at the getcwd and chdir functions in the os module?
You may wish to check that os.getcwd()'s notion of "current directory"
is the same as yours.
If you can't make any progress, ask again; do copy and paste the
relevant parts of your script instead of trying to describe what you
did. Also copy and paste output. Hint: use temporary print statements
to show what is happening.

HTH,
John

 

[Gabriel Genellina]

alright, noob question: i want to open a file in a directory above the
current one i'm in. I'm trying to use myfile =
open('../thefileiwant.txt', 'r') but the ../ doesn't work. How do i
do it?

Above the process' current dir, or above the dir where the script resides?
You get the latter with os.path.abspath(__file__)


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[Manuel Kaufmann]

El Martes, 21 de Noviembre de 2006 03:07, (e-mail address removed) escribió:

alright, noob question: i want to open a file in a directory above the
current one i'm in. I'm trying to use myfile =
open('../thefileiwant.txt', 'r') but the ../ doesn't work. How do i
do it?

Hello, I proved your doubt in my PC and it works fine. This is the example:

Python 2.4.4c1 (#2, Oct 11 2006, 21:51:02)
[GCC 4.1.2 20060928 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu5)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.import sys
if __name__ == '__main__':
print 'manuel'