Error reading file in working directory python

Question

I am trying to read a file in python. This is the code I am using:

# test script
import csv
import json
import os


def loadKeys(key_file):
    json_keys=open(key_file).read()
    data = json.loads(json_keys)
    return data["api_key"],data["api_secret"],data["token"],data["token_secret"]

KEY_FILE = 'keys.json'
print(os.listdir(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))))

api_key, api_secret, token, token_secret = loadKeys(KEY_FILE)

However it returns the following error

->print(os.listdir(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))))
['.DS_Store', 'keys.json', 'script.py', 'test.py']
->api_key, api_secret, token, token_secret = loadKeys(KEY_FILE)
IOError: (2, 'No such file or directory', 'keys.json')

Is there anything I am doing wrong?

Mark Tolonen · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-16 23:26:04Z

1

the KEY_FILE has no path, so it defaults to looking in the current directory. You've listed the file in another directory, which is the result of:

os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))

Use os.path.join:

path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
loadKeys(os.path.join(path,KEY_FILE))

answered Sep 16, 2017 at 23:26

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