Rather than hardcoding paths in your Python script we should make use of the path operation from the module os.

os.path.expanduser(path) expands the path to the user's home directory

os.path.join(path1,*path2*,...) joins path elements with the appropriate separator

os.sep gives the OS dependent path separator (/ for Linux/Unix, for Windows)

os.getcwd() gives the current working directory

os.path.abspath(path) gives the OS dependent absolute path of a given path

Example:

>>>import os

>>>path = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~'), 'documents', 'python', 'file.txt')

>>>print (path)

Result

/home/user/documents/python/file.txt ## when on Ubuntu

C:Usersuserdocumentspythonile.txt ## when running Windows