I’m practicing the management of .txt files in python. I’ve been reading about it and found that if I try to open a file that doesn’t exists yet it will create it on the same directory from where the program is being executed. The problem comes that when I try to open it, I get this error:
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘C:UsersmyusernamePycharmProjectsTestscopy.txt’.
I even tried specifying a path as you can see in the error.
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import os2
THIS_FOLDER = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))3
my_file = os.path.join(THIS_FOLDER, 'copy.txt')4
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Answer
Looks like you forgot the mode parameter when calling open, try w:
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with open("copy.txt", "w") as file:2
file.write("Your text goes here")3
The default value is r and will fail if the file does not exist
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'r' open for reading (default)2
'w' open for writing, truncating the file first3
Other interesting options are
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'x' open for exclusive creation, failing if the file already exists2
'a' open for writing, appending to the end of the file if it exists3