CODEWITHSUNDEEP
python
J. Doe
J. Doe

Reputation: 39

Python create file in certain directory with open()

My code:

boyka = "hello"
f = open("~/Desktop/" + boyka + ".txt", "a")
f.write(boyka)
f.close

result:

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '~/Desktop/hello.txt'

Shouldn't the script create the file since it's "a" ? How can I fix the code?

I'm using Ubuntu.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4039

Answers (1)

Anand S Kumar
Anand S Kumar

Reputation: 90899

open() function would not automatically expand the ~ to the users home directory. It is instead trying to create in a directory with exactly that name. I am guessing that is not what you want. In which case you should use - os.path.expanduser() , to expand ~ to the user's home directory. Example -

import os.path
f = open(os.path.expanduser(os.path.join("~/Desktop",boyka + ".txt")), "a")

I would also like to suggest you to use os.path.join() to create the paths , rather than manually creating them.

Upvotes: 4

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