How do you tell Python where to save a text file?
For example, my computer is running the Python file off my desktop. I want it to save all the text file in my documents folder, not on my desktop. How do I do that in a script like this?
name_of_file = raw_input("What is the name of the file: ") completeName = name_of_file + ".txt" #Alter this line in any shape or form it is up to you. file1 = open(completeName , "w") toFile = raw_input("Write what you want into the field") file1.write(toFile) file1.close() 8 Answers
Just use an absolute path when opening the filehandle for writing.
import os.path save_path = 'C:/example/' name_of_file = raw_input("What is the name of the file: ") completeName = os.path.join(save_path, name_of_file+".txt") file1 = open(completeName, "w") toFile = raw_input("Write what you want into the field") file1.write(toFile) file1.close() You could optionally combine this with os.path.abspath() as described in Bryan's answer to automatically get the path of a user's Documents folder. Cheers!
Use os.path.join to combine the path to the Documents directory with the completeName (filename?) supplied by the user.
import os with open(os.path.join('/path/to/Documents',completeName), "w") as file1: toFile = raw_input("Write what you want into the field") file1.write(toFile) If you want the Documents directory to be relative to the user's home directory, you could use something like:
os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~'),'Documents',completeName) Others have proposed using os.path.abspath. Note that os.path.abspath does not resolve '~' to the user's home directory:
In [10]: cd /tmp /tmp In [11]: os.path.abspath("~") Out[11]: '/tmp/~' A small update to this. raw_input() is renamed as input() in Python 3.
Another simple way without using import OS is,
outFileName="F:\\folder\\folder\\filename.txt" outFile=open(outFileName, "w") outFile.write("""Hello my name is ABCD""") outFile.close() If you want to save a file to a particular DIRECTORY and FILENAME here is some simple example. It also checks to see if the directory has or has not been created.
import os.path directory = './html/' filename = "file.html" file_path = os.path.join(directory, filename) if not os.path.isdir(directory): os.mkdir(directory) file = open(file_path, "w") file.write(html) file.close() Hope this helps you!
Using an absolute or relative string as the filename.
name_of_file = input("What is the name of the file: ") completeName = '/home/user/Documents'+ name_of_file + ".txt" file1 = open(completeName , "w") toFile = input("Write what you want into the field") file1.write(toFile) file1.close() Just give your desired path if file does not exist earlier;
from os.path import abspath with open ('C:\\Users\\Admin\\Desktop\\results.txt', mode = 'w') as final1: print(final1.write('This is my new file.')) print(f'Text has been processed and saved at {abspath(final1.name)}') Output will be:
Text has been processed and saved at C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\results.txt If you want save file or another some in folder you can use shutil module from base python library.
import shutil path_to_file = f'home/user/My_Project/media/{my_file_name}' path_to_folder = 'home/user/my_folder/' shutil.copy(path_to_file, path_to_folder) You can do it ever for some file's list or in Django querysets:
from images.models import Image import shutil images = Image.objects.all() for image in images: image_path = image.file.path shutil.copy(image_path, path_to folder) All your choised files will put in directed folder.
