Notice that if the file's parent folder doesn't exist you'll get the same error:
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
Below is another solution which handles this case:
(*) I used sys.stdout and print instead of f.write just to show another use case
# Make sure the file's folder exist - Create folder if doesn't exist
folder_path = 'path/to/'+folder_name+'/'
if not os.path.exists(folder_path):
os.makedirs(folder_path)
print_to_log_file(folder_path, "Some File" ,"Some Content")
Where the internal print_to_log_file just take care of the file level:
# If you're not familiar with sys.stdout - just ignore it below (just a use case example)
def print_to_log_file(folder_path ,file_name ,content_to_write):
#1) Save a reference to the original standard output
original_stdout = sys.stdout
#2) Choose the mode
write_append_mode = 'a' #Append mode
file_path = folder_path + file_name
if (if not os.path.exists(file_path) ):
write_append_mode = 'w' # Write mode
#3) Perform action on file
with open(file_path, write_append_mode) as f:
sys.stdout = f # Change the standard output to the file we created.
print(file_path, content_to_write)
sys.stdout = original_stdout # Reset the standard output to its original value
Consider the following states:
'w' --> Write to existing file
'w+' --> Write to file, Create it if doesn't exist
'a' --> Append to file
'a+' --> Append to file, Create it if doesn't exist
In your case I would use a different approach and just use 'a' and 'a+'.