Here is the structure of my project : I need to read config.properties inside MyClass.java. I tried to do so with a relative path as follows : This gives me the following error : How can I define a relative path in Java? I’m using jdk 1.6 and working on windows.
You say your website is in http://localhost/mywebsite, and let’s say that your image is inside a subfolder named pictures/: Absolute path If you use an absolute path, / would point to the root of the site, not the root of the document: localhost in your case. That’s why you need to specify your document’s folder in order to access the pictures folder: And it would … Read more
In the file that has the script, you want to do something like this: This will give you the absolute path to the file you’re looking for. Note that if you’re using setuptools, you should probably use its package resources API instead. UPDATE: I’m responding to a comment here so I can paste a code sample. 🙂 … Read more
In the file that has the script, you want to do something like this: This will give you the absolute path to the file you’re looking for. Note that if you’re using setuptools, you should probably use its package resources API instead. UPDATE: I’m responding to a comment here so I can paste a code sample. 🙂 … Read more
With this type of thing you need to be careful what your actual working directory is. For example, you may not run the script from the directory the file is in. In this case, you can’t just use a relative path by itself. If you are sure the file you want is in a subdirectory … Read more
Also works if it is already an absolute path:
In the file that has the script, you want to do something like this: This will give you the absolute path to the file you’re looking for. Note that if you’re using setuptools, you should probably use its package resources API instead. UPDATE: I’m responding to a comment here so I can paste a code sample. 🙂 … Read more
Your file structure says that folder name is Container with a capital C. But you are trying to import it by container with a lowercase c. You will need to change the import or the folder name because the paths are case sensitive.
You can create a path relative to a module by using a module’s __file__ attribute. For example: This should do what you want regardless of where you start your script.
There is a PEP for everything. Quote from PEP8: Imports Explicit relative imports are an acceptable alternative to absolute imports, especially when dealing with complex package layouts where using absolute imports would be unnecessarily verbose: Guido’s decision in PEP328 Imports: Multi-Line and Absolute/Relative Copy Pasta from PEP328 Here’s a sample package layout: Assuming that the current file is either moduleX.py or subpackage1/__init__.py , … Read more