Help opening files

Question

Hello everyone,

For some reason I'm really struggling with opening files in Python.

I have tried examples such as these:

1)
With open('Practice/words.txt,)
(Both with / and \)

2)
With open('words.txt')

And other similar examples, but I always receive the error:

[Errno 2] No such file or directory:

And when I include the full path to the file I receive:

(unicode error) 'unicodescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: Truncated \UIXXXXXXXX escape

Sincerely,
Adrian

Answer 1

Thank you Jan,

I'll try this the next time I'm at my computer. I think the \\ might be my problem.

Thanks again!

Sincerely,
Adrian

Answer 2

Hey Jan,

I couldn't get the file to open from a different directory, but when I move the file to the same location as my script it worked.

I'll try to figure out what's wrong with opening it from a different location some other time since I need to get some more studying done.

Thank you again for your help!

Sincerely,
Adrian