13.1.3. File paths

• Windows filenames:

  • Uses backslash

  • C:\some_folder\some_file.txt

• Most other operating systems:(UNIX,Linux)

  • Forward slash

  • /some_folder/some_file.txt

• Reason:The forward slash character was already taken by UNIX when windows was made so they used a backslash instead.

• Relative path: The path relative to the folder we are currently working in.

• Absolute path: The path that is relative to the operating system

• If you want your Python code to work on both Windows and Mac/Linux, you’ll need to deal with these kinds of platform-specific issues.

• Luckily, Python 3 has a new module called pathlib that makes working with files nearly painless.

• we have to provide path

• path->all directories+file name

• If we just give file name

  • Python considers it relative

    • relative to cwd (os.cwd)

  • For absolute path

    • Linux: Starts with (/) /home/alarm/filename.txt

    • starts with C:\

• you can use os module or pathlib module or defining paths manually(worst) for the same