IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'config.txt'

[austkel]

Getting the following error...

I've edited my config file. It's in the same directory it came in. Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

[austkel]

The main folder for the TwitterFollowBot is in my C drive.

[rhiever]

You'll need to pass a string to the constructor with a path pointing to the config file, e.g., 'C:/TwitterFollowBot/config.txt'

By default, the script looks for a config.txt in the current directory you're running the script in.

[austkel]

Not entirely sure how to do what you described. Here's where my config.txt is...

[rhiever]

Change the line in your code to:

my_bot = TwitterBot('C:/TwitterFollowBot-master/config.txt')

[austkel]

Ok, I've now received this error. However, I've entered the details necessary. I tried it once before with including line breaks but that seemed to have caused an error. So now it's one long continuous string but the data is in the config.txt.

[austkel]

Thanks for your quick replies btw

[rhiever]

See here for how to fill out the config.txt: https://github.com/rhiever/TwitterFollowBot#configuring-the-bot

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 4:52 PM, austkel notifications@github.com wrote:

Ok, I've now received this error. However, I've entered the details necessary. I tried it once before with including line breaks but that seemed to have caused an error. So now it's one long continuous string but the data is in the config.txt.

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[austkel]

I think I entered it properly, but then I get this message like I got previously...

[rhiever]

Is there an empty line at the end of config.txt?

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 5:05 PM, austkel notifications@github.com wrote:

I think I entered it properly, but then I get this message like I got previously...

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— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/rhiever/TwitterFollowBot/issues/60#issuecomment-124240360 .

Randal S. Olson, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Biomedical Informatics University of Pennsylvania

E-mail: rso@randalolson.com | Twitter: @randal_olson https://twitter.com/randal_olson http://www.randalolson.com

[austkel]

No

[rhiever]

Well, here's what's happening:

The script is trying to parse your config.txt file.

It's reaching a line in the file that it thinks it should parse and trying to split on the : token.

This line that it's parsing must not have a : in it because when it tries to grab the first item after the :, it reaches an index out of range error.

So there's something weird going on with the config.txt you're passing it.

[xSLM]

I have the same issue!

[austkel]

Revisted this program lately. I found that my issue was using Notepad. Try using something like Notepad++, paste in your config, you'll see all the weirdness. Fix it, paste it back in, boom.