Question

Hello,

I would greatly appreciate it if anyone could help me.

I saved a text file in the C drive of my computer. I need to use open the text file to do my homework. But when I used the Python 3.7 to open the file, I got error message: NO SUCH FILE OR DIRECTORY.

What should I do to open the file using the Python.

Many thanks for your help.

Answer 1

There might be the possibility that the file you are trying to open is actually missing. Or you are making a mistake in writing the file path. Check these two things first. Below is a working example of reading a text file from the C drive on my computer using Python 3.7. To resolve these issues you can copy and paste the location of your file directly from the file explorer. You may also try to create a new file and check whether it is opened or not, there might be if there are some security issues involved.

Note: You have to duplicate the backslashes in the file path as:

C:\\Users\\beejb\\Desktop\\Instruction Manual.txt

Or else it will throw a unicode error.

CODE:

# the file handler
fh =open("C:\\Users\\beejb\\Desktop\\Instruction Manual.txt")
#a simple for loop to print the lines of the given text file
for line in fh:
    print(line)

OUTPUT: