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Why does opening a relative file work in the terminal but fail in a scheduled job?
KitForma editorial guide. Relative filesystem paths resolve from the process working directory, which a scheduler may choose differently from your terminal. They are not automatically relative to the source file.
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Relative filesystem paths resolve from the process working directory, which a scheduler may choose differently from your terminal. They are not automatically relative to the source file.
For a file shipped beside a regular script, derive the directory from
Path(__file__).resolve().parent; for packaged resources use importlib.resources. Log the resolved path and Path.cwd() without printing sensitive file contents. Test from another directory to expose hidden assumptions. User-provided paths may intentionally be relative to a selected workspace, so keep that separate from application resources. A writable data directory also should not be assumed to exist beside installed code.Sources and verification
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