Question

I have a problem that I can’t access a file with python even though the file is there and I can access it manually.
The following code is the problem:

f = '~/backup/backup_20121216.log'
text = open(f, "rb").read()
print text

Someone can point me into the right direction?

Answer 1

Does this work?

import os

path = '~/backup/backup_20121216.log'
path = os.path.expanduser(path)
with open(path, 'rb') as fp:
    text = fp.read()
print text