Error in Python IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'data.csv'

python errno
Doug Fir picture Doug Fir · Oct 21, 2012 · Viewed 118.6k times · Source

In Python, I have a script, I'm trying to use the python open("data.csv") command to open a CSV file that I have in the Python script directory.

There is a file there called data.csv.

The python script indicates an error:

Error in Python IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'data.csv'

What does this error mean and how do I fix it?

Here is the minimal code in the script that reproduces the error:

open("data.csv")

Answer

Senthil Kumaran picture Senthil Kumaran · Oct 21, 2012

Try to give the full path to your csv file

open('/users/gcameron/Desktop/map/data.csv')

The python process is looking for file in the directory it is running from.

Related questions

Python socket.error: [Errno 111] Connection refused

I am trying to write a program for file transfer using sockets. The server end of the code is running fine. However, in the client side I get the following error Traceback (most recent call last): File "client.py", line 54, …

Read More
Python [Errno 98] Address already in use

In my Python socket program, I sometimes need to interrupt it with Ctrl-C. When I do this, it does close the connection using socket.close(). However, when I try to reopen it I have to wait what seems like a …

Read More
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory (when it really exist) Python

I'm working on transfer folder of files via uart in python. Below you see simple function, but there is a problem because I get error like in title : IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '1.jpg' where 1.jpg is …

Read More