Pycharm does not see files in relative path with ../

Question

I am developing a python project using pycharm. However, the problem is that it refuses to load files in which the relative path includes ../. When I try

self.image = pygame.image.load("../resources/img/prey.png").convert_alpha()

I get:

self.image = pygame.image.load("../resources/img/prey.png").convert_alpha()
pygame.error: Couldn't open ../resources/img/prey.png

The thing is that when running my code from the terminal, it works fine, meaning that the problem is with pycharm.

Now, the problem is that while this originally sounds like many of the other questions in which the directory is not part of the working directory,adding:

import os
print os.getcwd()

from pycharm gives me /media/Storage/System and dev/Code/Cross Platform/python/boids/current

which seems correct with my directory structure being:

./current
    ./resources
        ./img
            prey.png
    ./objects
        modules_that_I_import.py
    ./experiments
        code_that_I_actually_run.py

The code that runs self.image=pygame.image.load("../resources/img/prey.png").convert_alpha() is in ./objects

I am using Pycharm Community Edition 2016.1.2 on Linux Mint with Python 2.7.

Any help is appreciated.

EDIT

when running os.getcwd from the command line I get /media/Storage/System and dev/Code/Cross Platform/python/boids/current/experiments

Klotz

What is printed when you run code with os.getcwd() in PyCharm? – Fransen

the output I gave was when running it in pycharm – Klotz

When I run os.getcwd from the commandline I get /media/Storage/System and dev/Code/Cross Platform/python/boids/current/experiments – Klotz

Answer 1

Go to Run - Edit Configurations, select your configuration

and change Working directory to /media/Storage/System and dev/Code/Cross Platform/python/boids/current/experiments.

Fransen

Your "change .. to" lists two different directories : how can there be two for the single Working Directory ? – Graber

@javadba It is one path with names containing spaces – Fransen

Are you saying that /media/Storage/System and dev/Code/Cross Platform/python/boids/current/experiments is one directory ? I am confused – Graber

@javadba Yes, I took it from the question – Fransen

Answer 2

I had the same problem when I moved the python file to another directory. In my case, it was enough to delete the run configuration (Run -> Edit Configurations -> Remove Configuration).

Featherbedding