🔒 My file is not recognised

[lofty sinew]

Help me

[dusky elk]

@lofty sinew

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[lofty sinew]

I made a file named main.py and parv.txt in a folder but file is not recognised

[cold oriole]

Error??

[tepid karma]

show what exactly are you running, and which error exactly are you getting

[lofty sinew]

Ok

file=open("parv.txt","r")
f=file.read()
print(f)

[tepid karma]

how are you running it?

[lofty sinew]

from main.py

[tepid karma]

how are you running main.py

[lofty sinew]

Bye clicking on run

[cold oriole]

do python3 main.py

[tepid karma]

see which command is it running in the terminal

[lofty sinew]

Ok

[lofty sinew]

Not working

[lofty sinew]

It's saying no file is recognised

[cold oriole]

error?

[cold oriole]

Show the error

The output

[tepid karma]

odds are that the current working directory is different from the folder you created those files in

for example, if you have:
/a/b/c.py
and the terminal is sitting in the a folder, then you have to either change to the b folder, or explicitly tell it that the file you want to interact with is inside of that folder

[cold oriole]

bruh

[tepid karma]

the working directory is ...Desktop/pyparv, the file you are trying to run is ...Desktop/pypvarv/file handling/main.py

You must either cd "file handling" first, or pass the full path to main.py instead of only the name

also install discord on your computer if you can

[lofty sinew]

Installed

[tepid karma]

pasting as text > printscreen > literal picture

[lofty sinew]

Ok

[lofty sinew]

Oooh

I understand

But now it is not printing file content

@tepid karma

[cold oriole]

Whats the error?

Or just empty

[lofty sinew]

PS C:\Users\cc\Desktop\pyparv> & C:/Users/cc/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python313/python.exe "c:/Users/cc/Desktop/pyparv/file handling/main.py"

[cold oriole]

with open("parv.txt", "r") as file:
f = file.read()
print(f)

try this

[tepid karma]

more or less the same issue as before

your working directory is still pyparv, so when you do open('parv.txt') it looks for pyparv/parv.txt

you have to either change the path inside of main.py, or change your working directory

[lofty sinew]

i updated the cod see

[cold oriole]

and change the path to the path of your txt

in the script

[lofty sinew]

file=open("file handling/parv.txt","r")
f=file.read()
print(f)    

[lofty sinew]

how to change working directory

?

[tepid karma]

using a context manager is good practice, but shouldn't make much of a difference here

the biggest difference is just that it closes the file automatically for you

[tepid karma]

the last code block you posted should work, but you can use the cd command in the terminal or modify the VS Code settings

[lofty sinew]

not worked that code

@tepid karma

[cold oriole]

Can you say in which directory is the parv.txt?

[lofty sinew]

pyparv

[cold oriole]

full directory

like desktop/…. etc

[tepid karma]

show the full thing being ran in the terminal and the error

[cold oriole]

it wouldnt, cuz on photo he sent earlier the script was in file handling/

and it gives error 2

file=open("../parv.txt","r")
f=file.read()
print(f)    

try maybe this

[lofty sinew]

This

[cold oriole]

Should work

if it is in pyparv directory

[tepid karma]

-- pyparv/file handling/main.py
with open('parv.txt', 'r') as file:
    print(file.read())

-- pyparv/file handling/parv.txt
hello world

-- type in the terminal:
cd "file handling"
py main.py

[cold oriole]

problem is parv.txt is not in file handling

[tepid karma]

oh my bad

[lofty sinew]

It's in file handling I put it

[cold oriole]

Ok so it should now then

[cold oriole]

try this now

[lofty sinew]

I am very thankful to both of you but it's 12:05 am I should go to sleep and turn off my laptop i will surely solve it tomorrow

[cold oriole]

good night

[lofty sinew]

Thankyou for helping me

[dusky elk]

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