read json in python3 from relative path

Question

This is my project structure:

main
-/data/data.json
-/a/b/c.py
main.py

data folder an a folder are in main folder which is the root of my project. I need to read data.json from c.py in python3 what would be my string in open()?

file = open('./data/data.json')

this works in windows but not linux

Answer 1

Up two folders and then in data/data.json :

with open('../../data/data.json') as f:
    ...

If you are on Windows, swap slashes with backslashes .