I'm using Python 3's pathlib
module, like this:
from pathlib import Path
filename = Path(__file__).parent / "example.txt"
contents = open(filename, "r").read()
But I get this error on some machines:
TypeError: invalid file: PosixPath('example.txt')
But on my machine it works.
pathlib
integrates seemlessly with open
only in Python 3.6 and later. From Python 3.6's release notes:
The built-in open()
function has been updated to accept os.PathLike
objects, as have all relevant functions in the os
and os.path
modules, and most other functions and classes in the standard library.
To get it to work in Python 3.5 and Python 3.6, just convert the object to a string:
contents = open(str(filename), "r").read()