I run a discord.py bot on my windows machine but I can't run the same bot on Ubuntu. I get a "file not found error" for this line, which is one of the earliest in the bot:
storm = json.load(open(r'jsons\storms.json', 'r'))['wind']
But it does exist. Here is the traceback:
File "/root/bot/utility.py", line 6, in <module>
storm = json.load(open(r'jsons\storms.json', 'r'))['wind']
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'jsons\\storms.json'
The bot works on my Windows machine so I'm assuming there is some difference in Ubuntu or something, since I have copied the full bot and all files onto the Ubuntu system.
You are using the hard-coded Windows route with backslash \, in Unix/Linux is slash /.
You can access to the right separator with os.path.sep, it will return \ on Windows and / elsewhere.
But the portable way would be using the join function from os.path, like this:
import os
storms_path = os.path.join('jsons', 'storms.json')
storm = json.load(open(storms_path, 'r'))['wind']
This will format your paths using the correct separator and will avoid a number of gotchas you could face building your own.