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Rahul Bohare
Rahul Bohare

Reputation: 831

Creating empty text files with specific names in a directory

I have two directories:

dir = path/to/annotations

and

dir_img = path/to/images

The format of image names in dir_img is image_name.jpg.

I need to create empty text files in dir as: image_name.txt, wherein I can later store annotations corresponding to the images. I am using Python.

I don't know how to proceed. Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks.

[Edit]: I tried the answer given here. It ran without any error but didn't create any files either.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2998

Answers (2)

Sadanand Upase
Sadanand Upase

Reputation: 142

This should create empty files for you and then you can proceed further.

import os
for f in os.listdir(source_dir):
    if f.endswith('.jpg'):
        file_path = os.path.join(target_dir, f.replace('.jpg', '.txt'))
        with open(file_path, "w+"):
            pass

Upvotes: 4

Elias Mi
Elias Mi

Reputation: 711

You can use the module os to list the existing files, and then just open the file in mode w+ which will create the file even if you're not writing anything into it. Don't forget to close your file! 

import os
for f in os.listdir(source_dir):
    if f.endswith('.jpg'):
        open(os.path.join(target_dir, f.replace('.jpg', '.txt')), 'w+').close()

Upvotes: 1

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