Getting a FileNotFoundError for writing a text file

Question

So I have been trying to write a text file in a specific directory with the following code (note_value and note_title are variables already set to a string) :

file = open("resources/user_notes/" + note_title + ".txt", "w")
file.write(note_value)
file.close()

When I try this I get the following error :

file = open("resources/user_notes/" + note_title + ".txt", "w")
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'resources/user_notes/the.txt'

The directory I am using does exist, I have even copied the directory path from my file explorer to python, and it still doesn't work. If you know the solution to this please let me know.

Answer 1

Have you tried with joining?

import os
fn = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '/resources/user_notes/the.txt')
with open(fn, 'r') as readfile: 
    for line in readfile:
        print(line)

Answer 2

I encountered a similar problem while writing to multiple text files from Python. Most of the files had no issue, but a few resulted in

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'IO/INDUSTRIES.txt'

Turns out the "/" in filename was causing the issue. This means that due to "/" my filename is "INDUSTRIES.txt" which resides in the "IO" folder, which is not true. So removing the "/" resolves this issue.