Pycharm does not see files in relative path with ../

python path pycharm filepath relative-path
Fake Name picture Fake Name · Jun 5, 2016 · Viewed 11.8k times · Source

I am developing a python project using pycharm. However, the problem is that it refuses to load files in which the relative path includes ../. When I try 

self.image = pygame.image.load("../resources/img/prey.png").convert_alpha()

I get:

self.image = pygame.image.load("../resources/img/prey.png").convert_alpha()
pygame.error: Couldn't open ../resources/img/prey.png

The thing is that when running my code from the terminal, it works fine, meaning that the problem is with pycharm.

Now, the problem is that while this originally sounds like many of the other questions in which the directory is not part of the working directory,adding: 

import os
print os.getcwd()

from pycharm gives me /media/Storage/System and dev/Code/Cross Platform/python/boids/current

which seems correct with my directory structure being:

./current
    ./resources
        ./img
            prey.png
    ./objects
        modules_that_I_import.py
    ./experiments
        code_that_I_actually_run.py

The code that runs self.image=pygame.image.load("../resources/img/prey.png").convert_alpha() is in ./objects

I am using Pycharm Community Edition 2016.1.2 on Linux Mint with Python 2.7.

Any help is appreciated.

EDIT

when running os.getcwd from the command line I get /media/Storage/System and dev/Code/Cross Platform/python/boids/current/experiments

Answer

user2235698 picture user2235698 · Jun 6, 2016

Go to Run - Edit Configurations, select your configuration

Run Configuration editing

and change Working directory to /media/Storage/System and dev/Code/Cross Platform/python/boids/current/experiments.

Working directory editing

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