Files, directories and imports - relative to the current directory only

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:35:34 -0300, Bjoern Schliessmann  
<usenet-mail-0306.20.chr0n0ss at spamgourmet.com> escribió:

> ptn wrote:
>>         Traceback (most recent call last):
>>           File "path.py", line 4, in <module>
>>                 f = open('~/read/foo.txt')
>>         IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or
>>         directory: '~/read/foo.txt'
>> [...]
>> So, what's wrong here? Maybe there's something I haven't set up?
>
> Simple: the directory "~" doesn't exist. Since you're not using a
> shell (but direct file access) there is no tilde expansion, and "~"
> is treated as a regular file name. If you need to get the home
> directory refer to the environment variable HOME
> (os.environ["HOME"]). There even may be a shorter way, please refer
> to the os module docs.

That shorter way being os.path.expanduser
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-os.path.html

-- 
Gabriel Genellina