🔒 Sudden AttributeError when troubleshooting code, the code suddenly broke without me touching it.

[copper stump]

Hi all, was working on some code, making a function work, when suddenly my line 7 (which I have not touched for several days now)

path = os.path.dirItem(os.path.abspath(__file__))

Has risen this error

AttributeError: module 'ntpath' has no attribute 'dirItem'

And I have no idea why this error has suddenly arisen, and I have no idea where to begin fixing it, does anyone have any ideas?

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@copper stump

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!d os.listdir

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os.listdir

os.listdir(path='.')```
Return a list containing the names of the entries in the directory given by *path*. The list is in arbitrary order, and does not include the special entries `'.'` and `'..'` even if they are present in the directory. If a file is removed from or added to the directory during the call of this function, whether a name for that file be included is unspecified.

*path* may be a [path-like object](https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-path-like-object). If *path* is of type `bytes` (directly or indirectly through the [`PathLike`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.PathLike) interface), the filenames returned will also be of type `bytes`; in all other circumstances, they will be of type `str`.

This function can also support [specifying a file descriptor](https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#path-fd); the file descriptor must refer to a directory.

Raises an [auditing event](https://docs.python.org/3/library/sys.html#auditing) `os.listdir` with argument `path`.

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What do you expect dirItem to do?

[copper stump]

I'm expecting to get the path to the python file being run

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That's __file__

[copper stump]

right, so that list of code wasnt even necessary in the end lmfao, oops!

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I'm pretty sure __file__ is already absolute btw

[copper stump]

absolute?

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abspath

!e print(file)

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:white_check_mark: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.

/home/main.py

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