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Python open() gives IOError: Errno 2 No such file or directory
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In Python, I have a script, I'm trying to use the python open("data.csv")
command to open a CSV file that I have in the Python script directory.
There is a file there called data.csv
.
The python script indicates an error:
Error in Python IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'data.csv'
What does this error mean and how do I fix it?
Here is the minimal code in the script that reproduces the error:
open("data.csv")
Try to give the full path to your csv file
open('/users/gcameron/Desktop/map/data.csv')
The python process is looking for file in the directory it is running from.
open looks in the current working directory, which in your case is ~
, since you are calling your script from the ~
directory.
You can fix the problem by either
cd
ing to the directory containing data.csv
before executing the script, or
by using the full path to data.csv
in your script, or
- by calling os.chdir(...) to change the current working directory from within your script. Note that all subsequent commands that use the current working directory (e.g.
open
and os.listdir
) may be affected by this.
It's looking for the file in the current directory.
First, go to that directory
cd /users/gcameron/Desktop/map
And then try to run it
python colorize_svg.py
You need to either provide the absolute path to data.csv, or run your script in the same directory as data.csv.