Be sure your current working directory is your desktop. import os print os.getcwd()
Otherwise specify the full path to the text file. r'c:\users....\mort.txt' -- Craig Cesareo - iPhone Pipeline Technical Director http://www.legend3d.com/ http://www.craigcesareo.com/ 609.994.6370 On Jun 24, 2012, at 11:28 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm am just new to Python, and am having trouble getting started. I am > trying to open files of data that I want to work on, and keep on getting a > message that no such file exist. For example here is a copy of what > I've typed and the error message > > > >>> fo = open('mort.txt') THIS IS WHAT I TYPED AND THE MESSAGE FOLLOWS > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in <module> > fo = open('mort.txt') > IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'mort.txt' >>>> > > The file mort.txt certainly seems to me to exist. I can see it on my > desktop. It was a small sample file that I just created to test this out. > At first I was just using 'mort', which is what appears on my desktop, but > it was suggested to me that I should include the extension .txt, which I > have verified is the correct extension, so that's not the problem anymore. I > have in fact tried this with a number of files and I get the same message > every time. I am using Python versus 3.2.2. , on a MAC with system > OS 10.6.8 . > > Any help would be appreciated > > David > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - [email protected] > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
