Script can't find input file despite being in the same directory

Philip Semanchuk philip at semanchuk.com
Fri Oct 17 13:30:18 EDT 2008


On Oct 17, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Robocop wrote:

> I have a simple little script that reads in postscript code, appends
> it, then writes it to a new postscript file.  Everything worked fine a
> month ago, but after rearranging my directory tree a bit my script
> fails to find the base postscript file.
>
> The line in question is:
>
>  for line in fileinput.input(['base.ps']):
>    output.write(line)
>
> I'm kind of at a loss as the script is executing in the same directory
> as base.ps, yet it can't find it.  I'm relatively new to python
> scripting, so i'm expecting it's just something i haven't learned
> about python that is causing the problem.  Any suggestions would be
> greatly appreciated.

Put this before the line that fails and see what it tells you:
print os.getcwd()


getcwd = get current working directory



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