[Errno 2] No such file or directory (Python)

Expected behaviour

Run a program that reads a file stored in the same directory as the program.

Actual behaviour

VS Code is returning the following in the terminal:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Filepath/10-1_learning_python.py", line 3, in <module>
with open(filename) as file_content:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'learning_python.txt'

Steps to reproduce:

I am trying to run a very simple Python program in VS Code. In the same subfolder I have the two following files:

• 10-1_learning_python.py
• learning_python.txt

This is the code in “10-1_learning_python.py”:

filename = 'learning_python.txt'

with open(filename) as file_content:
    content = file_content.read()
    print(content)

When running the code I get this error:

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘learning_python.txt’

This code works (using the very same directory and files) if I run it in other applications such as SublimeText.

Environment data

I am using macOS Catalina 10.15.5. My VS Code version is as follows:

Version: 1.45.1 Commit: 5763d909d5f12fe19f215cbfdd29a91c0fa9208a Date: 2020-05-14T08:33:47.663Z Electron: 7.2.4 Chrome: 78.0.3904.130 Node.js: 12.8.1 V8: 7.8.279.23-electron.0 OS: Darwin x64 19.5.0

Value of the python.languageServer setting: Microsoft

[karthiknadig]

You might have to enable, “Execute in file dir”.

[denisclc]

That did it! I did not know about this setting.

Thank you very much and sorry for the trouble…