with open() throwing errors on a json file

So I'm super new to coding and I wanted to design a text based RPG as sort of a fun way to learn some stuff and I picked out the language Python because it was named after Monty Python. How perfect right? Well, that is what I thought until trying to get rooms to load.

I am using json files to store my room names, descriptions, and exits then trying to call them in python via a method I saw on YouTube, here is the code:

def getRoom(id):
    ret = None
    with open(str(id)+".json", "r") as f:
        jsontext = f.read()
        d = json.loads(jsontext)
        d['id'] = id
        ret = Room(**d)

This threw an IOError directory or file not found, so I added a try statement like so:

def getRoom(id):
    ret = None
try:
    with open(str(id)+".json", "r") as f:
        jsontext = f.read()
        d = json.loads(jsontext)
        d['id'] = id
        ret = Room(**d)
except IOError:
    print("An error occured")

However now I am getting an "AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'name'" off my look command which I have coded like so:

def look(player, args):
    print(player.loc.name)
    print("")
    print (player.loc.description)

In case this matters here is my json file that I have named 1.json:

{
    "name": "A Small Bedroom",
    "description": "The old bed room has probably seen many people over the years as the inn sits along a major trade route. The floor boards show wear and creak as you walk over them.",
    "neighbors": {"w":2}
}

EDIT:

Full traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "game.py", line 79, in <module> 
       main(player) File "game.py", line 68, in main
           player.loc = getRoom(1)
   File "/home/illyduss/Urth/Locations/room.py", line 6, in getRoom 
       with open(str(id)+".json", "r") as f:
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '1.json'

The error clearly says that the file is not to be found. Try the following. 1. make sure that the filename 1.json is available from where you are calling the python interpretor.

for example: if you are calling $ python game/game.py, then the file should be in the present working directory, not in game dir

Try using absolute paths if you can

import os
base_dir = /path/to/json/dir
filename = str(id)+".json"
abs_file = os.path.join(base_dir, filename)
with open(abs_file, "r"):
    #do stuff

If you need the json files to be relative to the game.py file and still need the game file to be called from elsewhere, a good practice would be to define base_dir using __file__ attribute of the python file

base_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)

The reason you're geting NoneType error is that somehow the loc variable is being set to None. which means that you are passing None to the Player's constructor. Since you haven't provided the code where you initialize player, I am assuming that you're passing the result of getRoom() as loc to the constructor. If that is the case, make sure that the value returned by getRoom is not None. you need an explicit return statement at the end of the function. return ret . by default any function without a return statement returns None. That could be your issue