os.path.join() takes exactly one argument (2 given)

Question

i'm getting python error: TypeError: join() takes exactly one argument (2 given) in line 139, of set_Xpress method, which looks like this:

from os import path
from json import load
...
    def set_Xpress(Xpress_number, special_ts, disk, platform, testcase):
        ...
        with open("{0}:\\BBT2\\Configuration\\temporary.tmp".format(disk), "r") as test_conf_file_r:
            test_conf_vocab = load(test_conf_file_r)
        report = path.join(test_conf_vocab["report_dir"], test_conf_vocab["report_name"])
        ...

Please, help me understand what cause it. Python shell executes it with no problems, and the same stroke executed fine in another method with this tmp file. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

path is not the os.path module, it's a string. You redefined it somewhere.

from os import path  # path is a module, path.join takes many arguments

...

path = '/some/path'  # path is now a string, path.join is a totally
                     # different method, takes a single iterable
...

report = path.join(one, two)   # TypeError, str.join takes one argument

Answer 2

os.path.join() takes any number of arguments. Are you sure your path.join is actually calling os.path.join?

Answer 3

Absolutely os.path.join() takes as many as argument,like the one who said you have definitely redefined the path as a new variable and stored as a string so,be careful about.Though i did absolutely this and after a long search and trial i found my error.