unknown wrote: > On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 14:26:46 -0800, 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 indata = in_file.read() >> out_file = open("desktop/newfolder/%s.txt", 'w') % file >> out_file.write(indata) >> out_file.close() >> in_file.close() >> >> firstdev("test") > > would it not be more efficient and less error prone to use the os module > to copy the file rather than manually reading & re-writing it (unless of- > course you intend to expand this in future to process the data first)?
Hmm, I don't see a suitable function in os -- but there is shutil.copy() -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list