On 01/10/2012 04:53 PM, Hugo Arts wrote:
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Adrian<kellyadr...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi guys,
I know that if i dont include any path information, python looks in the current
directory for the file. My question is how do i specify a file path to open a
file saved on my desktop for example.
Thanks all
Adrian
Just write the path like you would anywhere else, there is nothing
special about how python handles this.
# this is where my desktop is located on my windows 7 machine, but it
differs per operating system of course
f = open("C:\Users\hugo\Desktop\file.txt", 'r')
You'd want to do one of three things there:
1) use forward slashes
"C:/Users/hugo/Desktop/file.txt"
which Windows will use happily for nearly every purpose.
2) use raw strings
r"C:\Users\hugo\Desktop\file.txt"
3) or escape the backslashes:
"C:\\Users\\hugo\\Desktop\\file.txt"
# you can also use relative paths, like "two directories up from the
current and then into the media directory"
# forward slashes here, that's what they use on essentially everything
that isn't windows
f = open("../../media/file.txt", 'r')
if you want to be cross-platform, you should take a look at the os.path module.
HTH,
Hugo
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