On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Matt <[email protected]> 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
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