On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Matt <mattgrav...@gmail.com> wrote: > So I want to take the file, "desktop/test.txt" and write it to > "desktop/newfolder/test.txt". I tried the below script, and it gave me: > "IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'desktop/%s.txt'". Any > suggestions would be great. > > > > def firstdev(file): > in_file = open("desktop/%s.txt") % file > indata = in_file.read() > out_file = open("desktop/newfolder/%s.txt", 'w') % file
You're using the % operator, which does your interpolations, at the wrong point. You want to be adjusting the file name, not adjusting the opened file: in_file = open("desktop/%s.txt" % file) out_file = open("desktop/newfolder/%s.txt" % file, 'w') ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list