Python 3 unable to find file - python-3.x

Question

My code is listed below. I am just trying to follow along with a tutorial. I am working on eventually applying this to a long list in a csv format. However, I cannot seem to get this simple code to run without throwing an error. The error is the dreaded FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified. Any help is greatly appreciated.
import simplekml
import subprocess
import pandas as pd
# names in a list
names = ['test_1',
'test_2',
'test_3']
# lat and longs
latitudes = [47.547921, 48.018745, 47.982146]
longitudes = [-105.125498, -105.325687, -105.6547821]
# piecing together the name, long, and lat values into variable called locations
locations = pd.DataFrame({'names': names,
'longitudes': longitudes,
'latitudes': latitudes})
# creating an instance of the simplekml class
points_kml = simplekml.Kml()
# iterating over the locations variable
for i in locations.itertuples():
points_kml.newpoint(name=i.names, coords=[(i.longitudes, i.latitudes)])
# assigning the variable points_kml_path to where we want to save the file we are creating
points_kml_path = 'c:/Users/rexmo/Documents/points_kml.kml'
points_kml.save(points_kml_path)
# open with Google Earth Pro
#subprocess.call(['open', points_kml_path])
subprocess.run(['open', points_kml_path])
My traceback error is as follows:
runfile('C:/Users/rexmo/Documents/Work/spotter_problems/untitled0.py', wdir='C:/Users/rexmo/Documents/Work/spotter_problems')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\rexmo\Documents\Work\spotter_problems\untitled0.py", line 31, in <module>
subprocess.run(['open', points_kml_path])
File "C:\Users\rexmo\anaconda3\lib\subprocess.py", line 488, in run
with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process:
File "C:\Users\rexmo\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder_kernels\customize\spydercustomize.py", line 104, in __init__
super(SubprocessPopen, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\rexmo\anaconda3\lib\subprocess.py", line 800, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "C:\Users\rexmo\anaconda3\lib\subprocess.py", line 1207, in _execute_child
startupinfo)
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified
The file is being written to the directory listed in the code. I can double click the file in the folder and it is opened in Google Earth as expected. I am at a loss as to what to do.

Answer 1

You could try pathlib?
from pathlib import Path
# Replace this line
points_kml_path = 'c:/Users/rexmo/Documents/points_kml.kml'
# With this
points_kml_path = Path.home() / 'Documents' / 'points_kml.kml'
# Edit, I don't know if you might need it as a string
points_kml_path = Path.home() / 'Documents' / 'points_kml.kml'
points_kml_path = str(points_kml_path)

Answer 2

So I have found 2 different ways to get the result that I wanted, which was simply to fire up Google Earth with the points created in the above script. The first and seemingly less complicated is
import os
os.startfile(points_kml_path)
The other seemingly slightly less complicated way is
# Path to Google Earth exe
earth = 'c:\Program Files\Google\Google Earth Pro\client\googleearth.exe'
subprocess.run([earth, points_kml_path])
It seems weird that I would need to explicitly show the full path to the Google Earth executable. If there is another way I would still be interested in hearing about it.