How to open JSON file from another directory - json

Question

I am trying to open JSON file which is located in another directory, and receiving error:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
I understand that if I provide relative path, the file has to be in same directory, otherwise the full (root) path has to be provided.
My question is how to avoid it, as at the moment I test it locally, but the code is being used by other people so obviously the path can't be from my root.
Any idea of how to resolve it?
Here is the code:
with open("example.json") as commands:
commands = json.load(commands)

Answer 1

You can specify a path relative to your current location.
For example, you're in folder baz and the json file is in folder foo
my
├── bar
│   └── baz <--- you're here
└── foo
└── example.json <--- the file is here
you can access the json file with
with open("../../foo/example.json") as commands:
commands = json.load(commands)
where .. is the parent of a folder. So ../../foo/example.json is the file two parents up (baz -> bar -> my) and then into the folder foo and finally to the json file example.json.
 
Finally note that if you are on Windows you might need to replace the forward slashes (/) in the path with backward slashes (\).