Python Pathlib IndexError

Question

I'm having trouble with using following lines on my AWS instance. Code works perfectly fine on my Macbook. What's the problem here? I've checked directory, it exists, there is not problem with path.

Image - code output

s = str(Path(Path('__file__').parents[1] / 'lib'))
print(s)

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File "/usr/lib/python3.6/pathlib.py", line 594, in __getitem__
raise IndexError(idx)
IndexError: 1

Paste the error as text instead of image. It will be easy to people coming to answer. — shaik moeed, May 24 '19 at 05:41
Where is the file that you are running this code from? What is the location? — Underoos, May 24 '19 at 05:59

Underoos · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-24T09:43:42.987

As far as I understood you are trying to print the directory named lib which is a sibling to the parent[1] directory.

But your Path('__file__') does not return the current file path.

If you are looking to do this cd ../lib from your file directory, you should get the absolute path of the file first and go from there like below.

samp.py

from pathlib import Path
import os
print(os.path.abspath(__file__))
s = str(Path(Path(os.path.abspath(__file__)).parents[1] / 'lib'))
print(s)

Output:

..../Downloads/f1/samp.py
..../Downloads/lib

Python Pathlib IndexError

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