Sorry for incorect answer. Those guys nailed it On Nov 11, 2013 5:43 PM, "bob gailer" <bgai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/11/2013 5:26 PM, Matt 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 >> > The problem is the above line. Rewrite is thus: > > in_file = open("desktop/%s.txt" % file) > > > indata = in_file.read() >> out_file = open("desktop/newfolder/%s.txt", 'w') % file >> > Same here: > >> out_file = open("desktop/newfolder/%s.txt"% file, 'w') >> >> >> out_file.write(indata) >> out_file.close() >> in_file.close() >> > Also don't get in the habit of reassigning built-in functions e;g; file. > >> >> firstdev("test") >> > > > -- > Bob Gailer > 919-636-4239 > Chapel Hill NC > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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