How to access the data within a subfolder, when my main script is also in a subfolder?

Hello, so I have a jupyter notebook in the data/processed folder and I want to access the json and csv file I have downloaded into the data/raw folder. I can’t seem to write the correct path for it.

data\
  processed\
    datacleaning.ipynb
  raw\
      getdata.ipynb
      EXAMPLE.json
      EXAMPLE.csv
src\
  results.ipynb

import pandas as pd
import json

raw_data = open("./data/raw/EXAMPLE.json")

i got the FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘./data/raw/EXAMPLE.json’

Anyone know what the correct path would be?

>Solution :

Let’s assume your project lives in the absolute folder /home/karo/projects/.
Your notebooks current directiory is /home/karo/projects/data/processed.

When you write

raw_data = open("./data/raw/EXAMPLE.json")

it will be resolved to

raw_data = open("/home/karo/projects/data/processed/data/raw/EXAMPLE.json")

As you can see that’s not an existing path.

You can either write:

• raw_data = open("/home/karo/projects/data/raw/EXAMPLE.json")
• raw_data = open("../raw/EXAMPLE.json")