#🔒 Trying to open a file ...

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crystal fractal
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Hello, I'm getting some troubles with opening the 'words' (unix) file, can someone help me please ?

more about the file : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_(Unix)#

(I copied and pasted~ the file's words in a new file I created because I couldn't find the original one)

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Words (Unix)

words is a standard file on Unix and Unix-like operating systems, and is simply a newline-delimited list of dictionary words. It is used, for instance, by spell-checking programs.
The words file is usually stored in /usr/share/dict/words or /usr/dict/words.
On Debian and Ubuntu, the words file is provided by the wordlist package, or its provider...

solid basaltBOT
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@crystal fractal

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knotty kiln
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Your issue is how you're writing the path - each \U<something> is interpreted, here, as an escape sequence. Your choices are:

  • use / slashes instead of \ ones
  • write each slash as \\
  • use a rawstring, e.g. r'C:\Users\...'
crystal fractal
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I writed it all the same no ?

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okay I'll try

fallow raft
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technically only the backslash before Users needs modified, but it does look better if you modify all of them

crystal fractal
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okay thanks I guess it worked, it was a dumb question

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now I need to learn more about file manipulation

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thanks

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