How to open my files in data_folder with pandas using relative path?

Question

I\'m working with pandas and need to read some csv files, the structure is something like this:

folder/folder2/scripts_folder/script.py

folder/fol

Answer 1

Pandas will start looking from where your current python file is located. Therefore you can move from your current directory to where your data is located with '..' For example:

pd.read_csv('../../../data_folder/data.csv')

Will go 3 levels up and then into a data_folder (assuming it's there) Or

pd.read_csv('data_folder/data.csv')

assuming your data_folder is in the same directory as your .py file.