[Tutor] Variable and a raw string

Richard Damon Richard at Damon-family.org
Mon Jan 20 17:21:39 EST 2020


Does the directory /home/user/colorado exist? (And is writable?)
The function fopen can create the file, but it won’t create the directory. 

> On Jan 20, 2020, at 3:15 PM, Alessandro Caudilho <caudilho at cock.li> wrote:
> 
> Hello all
> 
> my code below:
> 
> ============================
> from datetime import datetime
> 
> state = 'colorado/us'
> 
> with open('/home/user/' + state + '.txt', 'a') as f:
>    time = datetime.today().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
>    f.write(time)
>    f.close()
> ============================
> 
> And I get FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: "/home/user/colorado/us'.txt"
> 
> So how can I create a variable and assign the raw string to it? Are there other solutions for this problem?
> 
> -- 
> Alessandro Caudilho <caudilho at cock.li>
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