Eclipse, Panda3D and relative File Paths

General Discussion
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Hello,

I’m having a bit of an issue using eclipse to run my Panda3D code. I was wondering if anybody could help me? I have two folders under my project: Models and Scenes. When loading actors in using the path ‘Models/filenamehere.egg’, it works beautifully, but whenever i do something like: file = open(“Scenes/SceneP.txt”, ‘r’) I get no such file or directory error. In the case of the open commands i use, i need to supply an absolute path. Is there any way to get relative paths like the above working in eclipse?

thanks

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It should work like this. The problem is not eclipse specific and is some place else.

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Any idea what might be causing the issue then?

4

Where is your working directory ?
print os.getcwd()

What’s the result of :
print os.path.abspath(“that/path/above”)

5

Ahh

C:\Documents and Settings\user.YOUR-0CDC4F5844\

C:\Documents and Settings\user.YOUR-0CDC4F5844\Scenes\SceneP.txt

The correct path though should be

C:\Documents and Settings\user.YOUR-0CDC4F5844\workspace\GamePython\Scenes\SceneP.txt

Hmmm…so how do I change the path so it’ll match the bottom properly using relative file paths?

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It’s a question of how you feed your main module to python. Where is it located ? Already in GamePython ? Then how could your cwd is 2 levels higher ? Are you sure you didn’t change it in your script ?
print sys.path[0]

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My main.py is in the GamePython Folder as is everything else, and in no place in my code do i alter absolute paths or anything of the sort.

sys path prints this:
C:\Documents and Settings\user.YOUR-0CDC4F5844\workspace\GamePython

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That’s good. Then there’s something else. Do this before anything else :
os.chdir(sys.path[0])

9

Excellent. Thanks a bunch, everything works quite well.