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Unable to open JSON file in pwd

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
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38/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
cli, desktop

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Start with the installed pyjsonviewer entry point and the pyjsonviewer.py path shown in the error, comparing the failing python3 pyjsonviewer -f ... invocation with the working $ pyjsonviewer command. Reproduce both cases with exported.json; done means the command-line invocation opens the specified JSON file without the file-not-found error.

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Description

Installed using pip3 install pyjsonviewer — Received a _tkinter error and resolved that using brew install python-tk

I have a .json file located in a directory (pwd) — repos/data_objects/exported.json

When I run python3 pyjsonviewer -f exported.json OR python3 pyjsonviewer -f repos/data_objects/exported.json I get the same error.

(14:52:30)──> python3 pyjsonviewer -f exported.json                                               2 ↵ ──(Tue,Oct11)─┘
/opt/homebrew/bin/python3: can't open file '/Users/username/repos/data_objects/pyjsonviewer': [Errno 2] No such file or directory 

AND

(14:51:19)──> python3 pyjsonviewer -f ~/repos/data_objects/exported.json                       2 ↵ ──(Tue,Oct11)─┘
/opt/homebrew/bin/python3: can't open file '/Users/username/repos/data_objects/pyjsonviewer': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

After installing python-tk with brew (brew install python-tk) running $ pyjsonviewer spawns a tree nav pane, as expected.

/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyjsonviewer/pyjsonviewer.py start!!

From the pyjsonviewer pane, I'm able to open the file.

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