Filepaths in Jupyter

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#1

Hi there,

I am not sure how I can change Jupyter to read a home directory for reading the “AppleStore.csv” file other than giving an absolute path. Is there a way to set a PATH to search?. Currently, I have it in the same location as my program file.

I do not see any output after it reads the file successfully.

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Thanks,
Kalyan

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#2

Hey, Kalyan.

To read from the current directory it’s enough to use the filename, just like you did.

You don’t see any output because the open function doesn’t output anything when it reads a file successfully, that’s the expected behavior.

Yes, you can change your current working directory by using os.chdir. Here’s an example.

>>> import os
>>> os.getcwd()
'/media/HDD Disk/Scratch'

This shows us that the current working directory is /media/HDD Disk/Scratch. Let’s change it to /home/bruno.

>>> os.chdir("/home/bruno")
>>> os.getcwd()
'/home/bruno'

From this moment on, to refer to the files in /home/bruno, I just need to use their filename.

I hope this helps.