[solved] get path of the experiment file

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• lvanderlinden

  February 2013 edited July 2015

  Hi,

  The get_file() function first looks in the file pool and then looks in the folder of the current experiment. So path = exp.get_file("my_image.png") will return the full path of the image, even if it's not stored in the file pool but merely in the same folder as your experiment. And you're right, storing your stimuli this way will make loading and saving much faster!

  Fore more info, see:

  • http://osdoc.cogsci.nl/python-inline-code/experiment-functions/#experiment.get_file

  Does this help?

  Best,

  Lotje

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• embodiment

  February 2013 edited 12:05PM

  Yes, but in my case the stimuli are in a subfolder of the folder of the current experiment. Have I necessarily to move the opensesame file inside the stimuli folder? I would prefer to leave a folder with only the pictures because in this way everything looks neater.
• boris

  February 2013 edited February 2013

  Hi,

  Imagine that your image are in the "images" folder of the current experiment.
  Then I guess that
  

  path = exp.get_file("\\images\\my_image.png")

  should work...
• embodiment

  February 2013 edited 12:05PM

  Hi boris. Unfortunately it does not work.
• lvanderlinden

  February 2013 edited February 2013

  Hi Andrea,

  You could determine the experiment folder by using the built-in Python module os:

  # Some important paths. On Windows, the working directory
  # is always the OpenSesame program folder, on other platforms
  # it may not be.  
  
  import os
  
  print 'The experiment path is %s' % exp.experiment_path
  print 'The working directory is %s' % os.getcwd()
  print 'The path to the file pool is %s' % exp.pool_folder
  

  Alternatively, you could use exp.get_file() like so:
  path = exp.get_file('subfolder/image.png')

  Best wishes,

  Lotje

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• embodiment

  February 2013 edited 12:05PM

  Ok, solved! I was doing and incorrect use of the exp.get_file() function.

  Many many thanks.
• lvanderlinden

  February 2013 edited 12:05PM

  Great to hear!

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