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PYTHON How to read txt file from folders on parent directory

I'm new to python, trying to learn and code at the same time, to test what i can do, I learned java, javascript, php, html, css, on my course, so I still remeber the basics.
I reached this problem and after hours i haven't found a solution that I can understand and like.
So this is my structure:
my structure
I want to read the test_input.txt inside the test_input.py, i want that because there are some strings for the user, and i want those strings to change based on the language. I though to write the .txt along side the .py file, but then everytime a function would generate string I would need to make all the language folders again, also if needed to add another language, I also would make various folders on every string occurency.
If possible, i want a solution that read the project inside itself to get the .txt file, because i want this project to be an .exe desktop program. Also, is pyhton good to make simple desktop apps? I'm lookin foward to learn the future languages, like I learned android in java, but I want to use kotlyn because is "better", so I cold make this project in java as a learned and did some in the past, but I want the "what will be most used on the future".
Please correct me in anything if I'm wrong, all this is more about see what I can do, and how, thanks for the help!!!

If I understand you correctly, you want to load and read the txt file in py. If this is the case, like i understood, then perhaps you want to follow this tutorial here:
https://www.pythontutorial.net/python-basics/python-read-text-file/
Also, did you try to open/load it already? If so, did you get an error? Most of the time, it is a path problem for beginners so make sure the path is setup already.
Cheers

I got this script from geeksforgeeks, it got multiple form of how to read a .txt, I am leaving you as well the documentation.
# Program to show various ways to read and
# write data in a file.
file1 = open("myfile.txt","w")
L = ["This is Delhi \n","This is Paris \n","This is London \n"]
# \n is placed to indicate EOL (End of Line)
file1.write("Hello \n")
file1.writelines(L)
file1.close() #to change file access modes
file1 = open("myfile.txt","r+")
print("Output of Read function is ")
print(file1.read())
print()
# seek(n) takes the file handle to the nth
# bite from the beginning.
file1.seek(0)
print( "Output of Readline function is ")
print(file1.readline())
print()
file1.seek(0)
# To show difference between read and readline
print("Output of Read(9) function is ")
print(file1.read(9))
print()
file1.seek(0)
print("Output of Readline(9) function is ")
print(file1.readline(9))
file1.seek(0)
# readlines function
print("Output of Readlines function is ")
print(file1.readlines())
print()
file1.close()
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/reading-writing-text-files-python/

How to use a python program stored in a text file?

I'm making a troubleshooting program in which I need to take a python program which is stored in a text file, but I can't use the 'import' module. To clarify this, there would be a python program stored as a '.txt' file, and in the main program I would take this text file and be able to use it as a subprogram. I've tried doing this, but I have had no clue of how to go about it, especially since I do not have much experience of Python.
Below is roughly the program. I don't know how to format it either, but here goes:
phonechoice = input("What type of phone do you have?")
if 'iphone' in phonechoice:
#here I would load a text file which contains the program for the iphone
#which asks them what problem they have with their phone and gives a solution
I'm wondering how I can do this. I thought how I could do this and maybe I could 'copy and paste' the program, line by line, into a definition, which I could then use. Would this work, and if it doesn't then in what other way could I do it?

Rename the text file to a python file, i.e. change the extension to ".py". This does not change the fact that it is a text file, just like renaming a picture.jpg file to picture.txt does not change the fact that it's an image file.
If you have some wacky requirement to import a module saved in file with a .txt extension, you can not use an import statement. But it is still possible to import like this:
import imp
my_module = imp.load_source('my_module', 'example.txt')

I am a bit reluctant to answer a "homework" type question, but I will give you some pointers on what you need to do. If I have a text file with this in it:
def main():
print("Hello")
main()
I could execute the code with the exec function like this:
with open("filename.txt") as file: #filename should be the name of the file
data = file.read()
exec(data) #this executes the code
The output would be as expected:
Hello
Hopefully this will shed some light on your problem!

Python: how to capture output to a text file? (only 25 of 530 lines captured now)

I've done a fair amount of lurking on SO and a fair amount of searching and reading, but I must also confess to being a relative noob at programming in general. I am trying to learn as I go, and so I have been playing with Python's NLTK. In the script below, I can get everything to work, except it only writes what would be the first screen of a multi-screen output, at least that's how I am thinking about it.
Here's the script:
#! /usr/bin/env python
import nltk
# First we have to open and read the file:
thefile = open('all_no_id.txt')
raw = thefile.read()
# Second we have to process it with nltk functions to do what we want
tokens = nltk.wordpunct_tokenize(raw)
text = nltk.Text(tokens)
# Now we can actually do stuff with it:
concord = text.concordance("cultural")
# Now to save this to a file
fileconcord = open('ccord-cultural.txt', 'w')
fileconcord.writelines(concord)
fileconcord.close()
And here's the beginning of the output file:
Building index...
Displaying 25 of 530 matches:
y .   The Baobab Tree : Stories of Cultural Continuity The continuity evident
regardless of ethnicity , and the cultural legacy of Africa as well . This Af
What am I missing here to get the entire 530 matches written to the file?

text.concordance(self, word, width=79, lines=25) seem to have other parameters as per manual.
I see no way to extract the size of concordance index, however, the concordance printing code seem to have this part: lines = min(lines, len(offsets)), therefore you can simply pass sys.maxint as a last argument:
concord = text.concordance("cultural", 75, sys.maxint)
Added:
Looking at you original code now, I can't see a way it could work before. text.concordance does not return anything, but outputs everything to stdout using print. Therefore, the easy option would be redirection stdout to you file, like this:
import sys
....
# Open the file
fileconcord = open('ccord-cultural.txt', 'w')
# Save old stdout stream
tmpout = sys.stdout
# Redirect all "print" calls to that file
sys.stdout = fileconcord
# Init the method
text.concordance("cultural", 200, sys.maxint)
# Close file
fileconcord.close()
# Reset stdout in case you need something else to print
sys.stdout = tmpout
Another option would be to use the respective classes directly and omit the Text wrapper. Just copy bits from here and combine them with bits from here and you are done.

Update:
I found this write text.concordance output to a file Options
from the ntlk usergroup. It's from 2010, and states:
Documentation for the Text class says: "is intended to support
initial exploration of texts (via the interactive console). ... If you
wish to write a program which makes use of these analyses, then you
should bypass the Text class, and use the appropriate analysis
function or class directly instead."
If nothing has changed in the package since then, this may be the source of your problem.
--- previously ---
I don't see a problem with writing to the file using writelines():
file.writelines(sequence)
Write a sequence of strings to the file. The sequence can be any
iterable object producing strings, typically a list of strings. There
is no return value. (The name is intended to match readlines();
writelines() does not add line separators.)
Note the italicized part, did you examine the output file in different editors? Perhaps the data is there, but not being rendered correctly due to missing end of line seperators?
Are you sure this part is generating the data you want to output?
concord = text.concordance("cultural")
I'm not familiar with nltk, so I'm just asking as part of eliminating possible sources for the problem.

Python parsing xml directly from web address

Hey. I tried to find a way but i can't. I have set up a xml.sax parser in python and it works perfect when i read a local file (for example calendar.xml), but i need to read a xml file from a web address.
I figured it would work if i do this:
toursxml='http://api.songkick.com/api/3.0/artists/mbid:'+mbid+'/calendar.xml?apikey=---------'
toursurl=urllib2.urlopen(toursxml)
toursurl=toursurl.read()
parser.parse(toursurl)
but it doesnt. im sure theres an easy way but i cant find it.
so yeah I can easily go to the url and download the file and open it by doing
parser.parse("calendar.xml")
as a work around ive set it up to read the file and create the file locally, close the file, and then read it. But as you can guess its slow as hell.
Is there anyone to directly read the xml? also note that the url name does not end in ".xml" so that may be a problem later

First, your example is mixed up. Please don't reuse variables.
toursurl= urllib2.urlopen(toursxml)
toursurl_string= toursurl.read()
parser.parseString( toursurl_string )
Reads the entire file into a string, named toursurl_string.
To parse a string, you use the parseString(toursurl_string) method.
http://docs.python.org/library/xml.sax.html#xml.sax.parseString
If you want to combine reading and parsing, you have to pass the "stream" or filename to parse.
toursurl= urllib2.urlopen(toursxml)
parser.parse(toursurl)

parser.parse(xyz)
expects xyz to be a file; you are looking for
parser.parseString(xyz)
which expects xyz to be a string containing XML.

How to separate content from a file that is a container for binary and other forms of content

I am trying to parse some .txt files. These files serve as containers for a variable number of 'children' files that are set off or identified within the container with SGML tags. With python I can easily separate the children files. However I am having trouble writing the binary content back out as a binary file (say a gif or jpg). In the simplest case the container might have an embedded html file followed by a graphic that is called by the html. I am assuming that my problem is because I am reading the original .txt file using open(filename,'r'). But that seems the only option to find the sgml tags to split the file.
I would appreciate any help to identify some relevant reading material.
I appreciate the suggestions but I am still struggling with the most basic questions. For example when I open the file with wordpad and scroll down to the section tagged as a gif I see this:
<FILENAME>h65803h6580301.gif
<DESCRIPTION>GRAPHIC
<TEXT>
begin 644 h65803h6580301.gif
M1TE&.#EA(P)I`=4#`("`#,#`P$!`0+^_OW]_?_#P\*"#H.##X-#0T&!#8!`0
M$+"PL"`#('!P<)"0D#`P,%!04#\_/^_O[Y^?GZ^OK]_?WX^/C\_/SV]O;U]?
I can handle finding the section easily enough but where does the gif file begin. Does the header start with 644, the blanks after the word begin or the line beginning with MITE?
Next, when the file is read into python does it do anything to the binary code that has to be undone when it is read back out?
I can find the lines where the graphics begin:
filerefbin=file('myfile.txt','rb')
wholeFile=filerefbin.read()
import re
graphicReg=re.compile('<DESCRIPTION>GRAPHIC')
locationGraphics=graphicReg.finditer(wholeFile)
graphicsTags=[]
for match in locationGraphics:
graphicsTags.append(match.span())
I can easily use the same process to get to the word begin, or to identify the filename and get to the end of the filename in the 'first' line. I have also successefully gotten to the end of the embedded gif file. But I can't seem to write out the correct combination of things so when I double click on h65803h6580301.gif when it has been isolated and saved I get to see the graphic.
Interestingly, when I open the file in rb, the line endings appear to still be present even though they don't seem to have any effect in notebpad. So that is clearly one of my problems I might need to readlines and join the lines together after stripping out the \n
I love this site and I love PYTHON
This was too easy once I read bendin's post. I just had to snip the section that began with the word begin and save that in a txt file and then run the following command:
import uu
uu.decode(r'c:\test2.txt',r'c:\test.gif')
I have to work with some other stuff for the rest of the day but I will post more here as I look at this more closely. The first thing I need to discover is how to use something other than a file, that is since I read the whole .txt file into memory and clipped out the section that has the image I need to work with the clipped section instead of writing it out to test2.txt. I am sure that can be done its just figuring out how to do it.

What you're looking at isn't "binary", it's uuencoded. Python's standard library includes the module uu, to handle uuencoded data.
The module uu requires the use of temporary files for encoding and decoding. You can accomplish this without resorting to temporary files by using Python's codecs module like this:
import codecs
data = "Let's just pretend that this is binary data, ok?"
uuencode = codecs.getencoder("uu")
data_uu, n = uuencode(data)
uudecode = codecs.getdecoder("uu")
decoded, m = uudecode(data_uu)
print """* The initial input:
%(data)s
* Encoding these %(n)d bytes produces:
%(data_uu)s
* When we decode these %(m)d bytes, we get the original data back:
%(decoded)s""" % globals()

You definitely need to be reading in binary mode if the content includes JPEG images.
As well, Python includes an SGML parser, http://docs.python.org/library/sgmllib.html .
There is no example there, but all you need to do is setup do_ methods to handle the sgml tags you wish.

You need to open(filename,'rb') to open the file in binary mode. Be aware that this will cause python to give You confusing, two-byte line endings on some operating systems.