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problem with path

Hi all,
I have placed an test.xml file in the folder where I kept my programme(.py file).
Now when I am going to access this file like
f=open("test.xml","r")
It is giving the error "No such file or directory called test.xml"

Please help.
Thanks.
Jun 11 '08 #1
2 1118
Works good for me ...

karthikeyan@Preyans-desktop:~/sample$ ls
test.xml
karthikeyan@Preyans-desktop:~/sample$ python
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  1. Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Apr 21 2008, 11:12:42) 
  2. [GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2
  3. Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  4. >>> f=open("test.xml","r")
  5. >>> 
check for the directory with the command
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  1. >>>import os
  2. >>>os.getpwd()
  3. ...
  4. >>>os.listdir('.')
  5. ['test.xml']
verify if the file exists there and u are working in the right directory
Jun 11 '08 #2
Moezzie
17
Actually i did have the same problem today. The wierd thing was that it only applied to some files in the directory(not all of them). I just made a new directory and put the files in there and voala!...(of corse i changed the path in my script)
Im not sure what caused it. It would be interesting to know though.
Jun 12 '08 #3

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