Just use an absolute path when opening the filehandle for writing.
import os.path
save_path = 'C:/example/'
name_of_file = raw_input("What is the name of the file: ")
completeName = os.path.join(save_path, name_of_file+".txt")
file1 = open(completeName, "w")
toFile = raw_input("Write what you want into the field")
file1.write(toFile)
file1.close()
You could optionally combine this with os.path.abspath() as described in Bryan's answer to automatically get the path of a user's Documents folder. Cheers!
Just use an absolute path when opening the filehandle for writing.
import os.path
save_path = 'C:/example/'
name_of_file = raw_input("What is the name of the file: ")
completeName = os.path.join(save_path, name_of_file+".txt")
file1 = open(completeName, "w")
toFile = raw_input("Write what you want into the field")
file1.write(toFile)
file1.close()
You could optionally combine this with os.path.abspath() as described in Bryan's answer to automatically get the path of a user's Documents folder. Cheers!
Use os.path.join to combine the path to the Documents directory with the completeName (filename?) supplied by the user.
import os
with open(os.path.join('/path/to/Documents',completeName), "w") as file1:
toFile = raw_input("Write what you want into the field")
file1.write(toFile)
If you want the Documents directory to be relative to the user's home directory, you could use something like:
os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~'),'Documents',completeName)
Others have proposed using os.path.abspath. Note that os.path.abspath does not resolve '~' to the user's home directory:
In [10]: cd /tmp
/tmp
In [11]: os.path.abspath("~")
Out[11]: '/tmp/~'
Hello,
I am trying to write in the path "c:/gpt-2-2/models" into a python code. When I run the code I get a syntax error at the "C:" part. I guess I don't know how to properly write file paths in python. Any help would be appreciated.
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Like Lev Levitsky says, the third options is the best of the bunch. It will work both on Windows and Linux.
To give this some authority you can read the django docs which recommend
When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db).
To add a further comment, you can also look into the use of use os.path.join() to intelligently join paths in a platform independent way.
The 1st and 2nd are completely equivalent. The third one is the shortest in terms of the character count. Also, forward slash is supported as path separator on platforms other than Windows, too. But that is not so important if you are hardcoding a Windows-specific path. I'd say, any of the three are safe. An incorrect (error-prone) way would be using unescaped backslashes:
myFile = "C:\My Documents\test\hello.txt"
The file path "c:\Test\blah" will have a tab character for the `\T'. You need to use either:
"C:\\Test"
or
r"C:\Test"
I recommend using the os module to avoid trouble in cross-platform. (windows,linux,mac)
Cause if the directory doesn't exists, it will return an exception.
import os
filepath = os.path.join('c:/your/full/path', 'filename')
if not os.path.exists('c:/your/full/path'):
os.makedirs('c:/your/full/path')
f = open(filepath, "a")
If this will be a function for a system or something, you can improve it by adding try/except for error control.
I have the following code:
file = open('folder/subfolder/file.txt', 'w')
file.write('hello world')
file.close()
I get an error, however: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
So naturally, I googled how to write to a file, creating it if it doesn't exist. And all the solutions are the same: Do what I did, but it only works if there's no missing subfolders.
How would I create the folder and subfolder (if they don't exist), and then write the file?
I suppose I could split the string, loop through each folder, and test for their existence. But is there a cleaner way to do this? It seems odd python is smart enough to create the file, but not enough to create the directory it's in as well.