pythonnumpyfile-not-found

NumPy genfromtxt OSError: file not found

I'm learning the NumPy library and when I try to read something from the file I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Users\user\Desktop\folder\Reading_from_file.py", line 3, in <module>
    example = genfromtxt("example.txt", delimiter=',')
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\numpy\lib\npyio.py", line 1793, in genfromtxt
    fid = np.lib._datasource.open(fname, 'rt', encoding=encoding)
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\numpy\lib\_datasource.py", line 193, in open
    return ds.open(path, mode, encoding=encoding, newline=newline)
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\numpy\lib\_datasource.py", line 533, in open
    raise IOError("%s not found." % path)
OSError: example.txt not found.

Here's the code:

from numpy import genfromtxt

example = genfromtxt("example.txt", delimiter=',')

Reading_from_file.py and example.txt are in the same folder

I read the documentation and I was trying to find something here but found nothing (maybe I missed something)

If there is already a thread on this topic, please link to it

Solution

  • You probably aren't running the script from the same folder that example.txt is in. example.txt doesn't need to be in the same directory as the script itself, it needs to be in the same directory as you are when you're running the script.