[Tutor] File extension change

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Wed Feb 3 04:25:11 EST 2016


On 02/02/16 17:46, Chelsea G wrote:

> ...but then in the def json_output instead of having the
> filename which i have now is 'test.txt' I want to have weekly_20160102.txt
> same naming convention as the csv file i am inputting. 

Take a look at the os.path module documentation.
There are several functions for manipulating
filenames including splitting and joining
the various constituent parts (basename,
extension, path etc).

You might decide to use os.rename() too.

hth
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