[Tutor] File path requirements (absolute or relative)?

[boB Stepp]

After reading this and Peter's reply my conclusion:  I am so forgetful!  I
now realize I struggled with this same topic a couple of years ago and
forgot what I then learned with the help of this forum.  Heavy sigh.

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 02:35:59PM -0600, Mats Wichmann wrote:

>~username is not interpreted by Python directly, it's a shell thing.

I keep forgetting this.

>For Python you can use os.path.expanduser or pathlib's Path.home()
>
>for the rest - if a relative path doesn't work, it usually means it
>isn't being evaluated in the context you think it is.  relative paths
>certainly work, so you're likely getting them relative to someplace else.

Yes.  This should have awakened my sleeping faculties.

>some debugging prints should help...

If I wasn't so hard-headed in believing what I *thought was true*, I might
have done so and not generated this thread.

Thanks, Mats, for your patience.

-- 
Wishing you only the best,

boB Stepp