Ah, silly me. I forgot to notice I was using a path variable in the
string I was giving to mlab.save. Part A works just fine when I
account for that. Now that just leaves creating the directory. I like
the cbook.mkdirs implementation a lot better than the non-recursive
version in os... thanks for the tip!
Josh
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:48 AM, John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Joshua Lippai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> I'm working on a project for which I would like to dump data into a
>> file in a specified directory (that doesn't necessarily exist yet). I
>> know matplotlib.mlab.save(fname, X) will only work if I want to save
>> data from an array/list to a file in the current working directory. Is
>> there an easy way using matplotlib to:
>>
>> A) Save a file to a specified directory rather than the current
>> working directory
>
> Just specify the full path to the output dir:
>
> save('/path/to/my/data.dat')
>
> or use the os modules built-in functions for cross-platform path handling:
>
> save(os.path.join(outdir, filename))
>
>> B) Create a directory I tell it to save to if it doesn;t already exist
>
> You can use os.mkdir. mpl svn has a function cbook.mkdirs to
> recursively make a directory path.
>
> JDH
>
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