When importing shp-file gives an error "No dataset found at path"

Question

I'm trying to follow this tutorial to GeoPandas and am trying to import the "oceans.shp" file, which I downloaded from here (together with the .dbf, .prj, qpj, and .shx files),
When running the code
oceans = gpd.read_file('[...]oceans.shp')

I get the error
FionaValueError: No dataset found at path '[...]oceans.shp' using drivers: *

What am I doing wrong - can someone point me into the right direction?

ImanolUr · Answer

Are you sure you wrote the path properly?

If the file is in the same directory than the script, do this:

import os

oceans = gpd.read_file(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'oceans.shp')

Using os assures you that you won't have conflicts of paths when switching from windows to linux.

When importing shp-file gives an error "No dataset found at path"

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