yeah i was unclear but i tested different stuff at the same time. and flim is not misspelled i just created it and jolted osmething down and it became flim...
print os.path.exists('C:/Python25/myPrograms/netflix/flim.txt') d=open('C:/Python25/myPrograms/netflix/flim.txt', 'r') #print d.readline() print d.read() d.close() #not necessary? print os.path.exists('C:\Users\saftarn\Desktop\NetFlixDataSet \training_set') i can read flim and exists returns true. however print os.path.exists('C:\Users\saftarn\Desktop\NetFlixDataSet') returns True but print os.path.exists('C:\Users\saftarn\Desktop\NetFlixDataSet \training_set') returns False... i have thourogly checked the filename to be correct and if we assume it is what could this mean then? i had a problem one other time when i had renamed a file but windows didnt rename it compeltely apparently. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list