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Question

pd.read_csv('C:\Users\aaa\Desktop\contrylist.csv')

plz help guys.I am a beginner in pandas..i am not able to open this csv files. Also I want to ask which is default directory for anacondas where I can store files and open them in below format

pd.read_csv('contrylist.csv')

Answer 1

If you don't want to put the full path, the file needs to be in the current directory, which you can see from

import os
os.path.abspath(os.path.curdir)

To change the current directory, use os.chdir

os.chdir(r'C:\Users\aaa\Desktop')

By the way, if you use IPython, then you can just use %pwd to see the current directory and %cd to change it.

Answer 2

Double your backslashes.

pd.read_csv('C:\\Users\\aaa\\Desktop\\contrylist.csv')

Or use raw strings:

pd.read_csv(r'C:\Users\aaa\Desktop\contrylist.csv')

Backslash is a special character in string literals and it's used for escaping. You should read the docs: strings and string literals .