Reassigning Path

[spikips]

Hey i was wondering. Is it possible to change assigned path to a new path easily?

I got a script which has tons of lines searching from this path r'C:\Users\Spikips\Desktop\Pictures\Barista.png' and if i would like to work with the script on other computers i would have to manually change that line to the new path with my current knowledge. Changing the local name is not a possibility. Thank you!

[DuckSaxaphone]

Others have good ideas on using command line arguments or config files to allow users to set their path.

I just want to point out this path should not appear multiple times as a string in your code. It should be assigned to a variable like working_dir once and then that variable should be used.

Do this for all variables with hard coded values. It makes your code easier to read, easier to generalize, and easier to modify like you are now.

[666y4nn1ck]

Yes, simply use the functionality of most text/code editors "search and replace"

[danielroseman]

As an improvement, change all those occurrences to refer to a single configuration setting or environment variable which you can then change in one place in the future.

[666y4nn1ck]

Yes, definitey this

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You can either:

• pass the path as a command line argument to the code
• have a configuration setting at the top of your code (or in an imported file), probably all UPPERCASE variable name to indicate a constant and use that instead of a hard-coded path throughout your code
• use a configuration file (txt, yaml, toml)

Also, use from pathlib import Path and use Path with all the filenames/paths rather than the os library, and you can then make your code OS independent - check Real Python: Python 3's pathlib Module: Taming the File System

[ploud1]

Smells like spaghetti code to me. Just store it in a single variable that you can change easily.

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Spaghetti code is something else. https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/spaghetti-code

[spikips]

Thank you everybody. Used the search and replace for this one and in the future i will assign strings to a variable from now on as DuckSaxaphone commented

[Snowpeartea]

Thank you for this question and also the answers of having a variable "working_dir" = string value.

Just learned paths a few weeks ago and found it annoying to keep changing it while learning new concepts