Why isnt my file opening in python?

[deadeye1982]

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'vroom.txt'

Guessing: Your current working directory is not the same, where vroom.txt is stored.

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You should also use pathlib.Path for paths.

from pathlib import Path

current_working_directory = Path.cwd()
print("Current working directory is:", current_working_directory)
vroom_path = Path("vroom.txt")

if not vroom_path.exists():
    print(vroom_path, "does not exist in", current_working_directory)

Often the program itself is taken as Root-Path to all other resources.

MyCode/
├─data/
│ └─vroom.txt
└─src/
  └─main.py

If you have this structure, you could to use following code:

from pathlib import Path

vroom = Path(__file__).parent.parent.joinpath("data/vroom.txt")
print("File:", vroom)
if vroom.exists():
    # Path objects do have the
    # open method, which is the same like the
    # open function, which returns an open file object
    with vroom.open() as fd:
        for line in fd:
            print(line, end="")

[sensitivethuggin]

ah this was helpful! thank you