How to find a file within the same folder of a .py

[Ciremo]

I've made a simple script which asks questions, and writes the answers into a file (Answers.txt) However, the only way I get it to work is to define the entire path, e.g. C:\folder\Answers.txt

But Answers.txt can be in different folders depending on where users have installed it, so I'm wondering if I can make the script search within its own folder? That way people would be able to simply place the two in the same folder and not have to rewrite the pathing.

I tried simply writing into \Answers.txt but it didn't work. It seems to find the file, but doesn't write to it.

[dwblas]

You want to always use the complete path. It will avoid a lot of needless debugging over the years. The simplest solution if I understand, would be to append the person's name to the file name, "Answers_Bob.txt", and store them all in the same directory.

[Motoma]

To write to a file in the current working directory (the directory the user is currently in) you would just write to 'Answers.txt'.

To write to the directory that the script is in, you would write to os.join(sys.path[0], 'Answers.txt')

[Glenton]

If it finds the file and doesn't write to it, then the problem is not the path! open("answers.txt","w") is what you need if you want to over-write the file each time. Or "a" to append. Or "r" to read-only (this is the default), which is why I suspect you were using open("answers.txt").