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No such file or directory: '/Applications/Electrum.app/Contents/MacOS/mnemonic/wordlist/english.txt'

See original GitHub issue

Attempting to generate BIPS39 seed words from console on Mac OS using the below command

import mnemonic
mnemonic.Mnemonic('english').generate(256)

throws the following error

Traceback (most recent call last):
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Applications/Electrum.app/Contents/MacOS/mnemonic/wordlist/english.txt'

There is no /mnemonic directory within the Electrum package but I was able to locate the wordlist directory at /Applications/Electrum.app/Contents/Resources/electrum/wordlist

Electrum 4.1.5 Mac OS 11.5.2 Big Sur

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Created 2 years ago
Comments:6 (4 by maintainers)

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SomberNightcommented, Sep 15, 2021

Yes.

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SomberNightcommented, Sep 15, 2021

Note that electrum.mnemonic is a module inside electrum for Electrum seeds, while mnemonic is a python package maintained by Trezor for bip39 seeds. The former is a core part of electrum, while the latter is an indirect dependency as some hardware wallets depend on it.