[issue38050] open('file.txt') path not found

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I strongly doubt that IDLE crashed, as opposed to showing a traceback generated by Python. If Python crashes, IDLE restarts instead of crashing. I am closing this because all the essential information is still missing a week after it was requested. There i

[issue38050] open('file.txt') path not found

Steve Dower added the comment: Potentially an IDLE issue, if valid but incorrect code is causing it to break. Sean, we'll need you to provide step-by-step instructions (including copies of any files you are using) to see the problem ourselves, otherwise there's no way we can help. Please als

[issue38050] open('file.txt') path not found

Sean Frazier added the comment: If you are running a program and an the program crashes, then doesn't work properly afterward, what would you call that? -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue38050] open('file.txt') path not found

Eric V. Smith added the comment: This is almost certainly not a bug in Python. This forum is for reporting bugs in Python, not for getting help on using Python. I suggest you try the python-tutor mailing list: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor -- nosy: +eric.smith resolu

[issue38050] open('file.txt') path not found

New submission from Sean Frazier : I am running a problem in 'Think Python' and was having no issues with: fin = open('words.txt') Then when I was working with the reference file, running a function, my IDLE crashed and is no longer able to locate files using [var = open('file.txt')] I have