Directory not found during Tests even though the folders and files are created correctly with their correct contents

Question

For all the test I get a file not found error for the the first instance of a txt file in the current test folder:
For example: Test01: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'test01.out/The daily dinner misspells imagination..txt'

But when I run my own tests the folders and files are correctly created and translated in their corresponding folders.

For example in my own tests if I have a source root: '...\\desktop\\sapienza\\homework\\programming\\hw4req\\hw4req\\test01'
and a target root: '...\\desktop\\sapienza\\homework\\programming\\hw4req\\hw4req\\target'

The files will be correctly created in the 'target' directory

I don't know why this happens for the test and what I'm doing wrong.
I appreciate any help given.

Answer 1

Have you created the destination directory if not existent?

Comments

I tried by using os.path.isdir to the target_root and then use os.makedirs to the target root if it doesn't exist under the begining of the Umkansanize function.

But still it seems to be the same result

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Have you tried to use the '/' path separator, that works fine both on Unix and windows?

Have you opened the indexes with utf8 encoding?

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Do not change the current directory

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I correctly use utf8 and I use os.path.join when needed so the separators should be fine I think.

i tried to get the working directory in different parts of my code by using os.getcwd and it seems to stay in the same folder during the process of  the whole program 

If it's allowed to share it I have here my test's outputs in spyder unittest in txt form

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Please do not use chdir.

When you get an error or a timeout your current directory remain changed and following tests fail

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Notice that the paths present in the index files (source and destination) use the Unix separator '/' and you will fail tests if you use the windows separator '\\'