I cannot get using a variable in the filename to work without throwing an error.
def logData(name, info): currentTime = datetime.datetime.now() date = currentTime.strftime("%x") filename = "{}_{}.txt".format(name, date) f = open(filename, "a") f.write(info)+ 'n') f.close()
I have tried formatting the string as shown above as well as concatenating the variables.
Is there anything I can do to solve this?
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Answer
One issue was the closing parentheses, also the date format contain / (slash ex:07/07/21) which will make the filename with slash i.e not a valid name in windows as it makes it a path.
Solution with least change to your logic:
import datetime def logData(name, info): currentTime = datetime.datetime.now() date = currentTime.strftime("%Y-%m-%d") filename = "{}_{}.txt".format(name, date) with open(filename,"a+") as f: f.write(f'{info}n') logData('my_file',"test")