file open "no such file"

[Gary Wessle]

I am getting this error when I try to run the code below

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f = open("~/m", "r")
print f.read()
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:~$ python python/my.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "python/my.py", line 1, in ?
f = open("~/m", "r")
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '~/m'
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but I have the "m" file in my home/username/
thank you

[Robert Kern]

Gary Wessle wrote:

I am getting this error when I try to run the code below

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f = open("~/m", "r")
print f.read()
****************

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:~$ python python/my.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "python/my.py", line 1, in ?
f = open("~/m", "r")
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '~/m'
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but I have the "m" file in my home/username/

There is no automatic ~expansion. You will need to use the function
os.path.expanduser().

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Robert Kern
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"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco