You might want to look at pathlib: with (Path.home() / '.config' / '1234.conf').open() as fd: print('Hello', file=fd) Granted, with / precedence y

You might want to look at pathlib: with (Path.home() / '.config' / '1234.conf').open() as fd: print('Hello', file=fd) Granted, with / precedence you'll often need parens to group / before .