Python import problem

Scrappychimow

Hi, i have a csv file saved on my desktop and i want to print its contents.

this is the error i get -
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: dates.csv

The problem is python cannot find the csv file?

TonyStark

Scrappychimow wrote: »

Hi, i have a csv file saved on my desktop and i want to print its contents.

this is the error i get -
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: dates.csv

The problem is python cannot find the csv file?

Where is the program located? On your desktop?

Scrappychimow

TonyStark wrote: »

Where is the program located? On your desktop?

yes

Scrappychimow

its fine solved it.

Evil Phil

For future reference, you won't get much help if you don't post your code.

TonyStark

Be handy to tell us how you solved it as well. You don't need to be specific, but some sort of followup would be useful.

Scrappychimow

I put the csv file in the same folder as i put the saved python program from the shell.

Colonel Panic

Some helpful path functions in Python: https://docs.python.org/2/library/os.path.html
If you want to specify the file from the command line: https://docs.python.org/2/howto/argparse.html

Splinter

you can also specify the full path directly once you remember to escape the / in the file path.

e.g.

for file in os.listdir('c:\\users\\Splinter\\Desktop'):