Filenotfounderror But File Exists

I am creating a Python application that imports many JSON files. The files are in the same folder as the python script's location. Before I moved the entire folder someplace else,

Solution 1:

"~" isn't a real directory (and would not qualify as an "absolute path"), and that's why the open doesn't work.

In order to expand the tilde to an actual directory (e.g. /Users/23markusz), you can use os.path.expanduser:

import os
...
withopen(os.path.expanduser('~/Documents/CincoMinutos-master/settings.json'), 'a+') as f:
    # Do stuff