From f551d1c1b603ec7d4584222da8893c43ef96002a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Karahan=20Sar=C4=B1ta=C5=9F?=
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:31:04 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Update mujoco_env.py xml file reading

---
 gymnasium/envs/mujoco/mujoco_env.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gymnasium/envs/mujoco/mujoco_env.py b/gymnasium/envs/mujoco/mujoco_env.py
index 4a94bf77e..2cc8971cb 100644
--- a/gymnasium/envs/mujoco/mujoco_env.py
+++ b/gymnasium/envs/mujoco/mujoco_env.py
@@ -126,7 +126,9 @@ def _initialize_simulation(
         """
         Initialize MuJoCo simulation data structures `mjModel` and `mjData`.
         """
-        model = mujoco.MjModel.from_xml_path(self.fullpath)
+        with open(self.fullpath, 'r') as f:
+            xml_content = f.read()
+        model = mujoco.MjModel.from_xml_string(xml_content)
         # MjrContext will copy model.vis.global_.off* to con.off*
         model.vis.global_.offwidth = self.width
         model.vis.global_.offheight = self.height