FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] File and path verified? - python-3.x

Question

This is the print out in Python 3.5.1 Shell:
import os
os.getcwd()
'C:\\Users\\victoria\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python35-32'
>>> import os
>>> os.path.abspath('.\\hello')
'C:\\Users\\victoria\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python35-32\\hello'
>>> helloFile = open('C:\\Users\\victoria\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\python\\Python35-32\\hello.txt')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#5>", line 1, in <module>
helloFile = open('C:\\Users\\victoria\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\python\\Python35-32\\hello.txt')
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Users\\victoria\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\python\\Python35-32\\hello.txt'
What am I reading wrong? I have the .txt file "hello" and it's path verified.

Answer 1

The problem here is that you are trying to open a file that don't exist or you don't put the right name for it. Perhaps you file is actually called hello but when you try to open it you call it as hello.txt which don't exist
Also os.path.abspath don't give you the path to a actual file, it convert a given path into absolute version of it
To check the existence of a file, you must use os.path.exists
example
>>> import os
>>> path=os.path.abspath(".\\fake_file.txt")
>>> path
'C:\\Users\\David\\Documents\\Python Scripts\\fake_file.txt'
>>> os.path.exists(path)
False
>>> path2=os.path.abspath(".\\test.txt")
>>> path2
'C:\\Users\\David\\Documents\\Python Scripts\\test.txt'
>>> os.path.exists(path2)
True
>>>