I'm having trouble creating a directory and then opening/creating/writing into a file in the specified directory. The reason seems unclear to me. I'm using os.mkdir() and
path=chap_name
print "Path : "+chap_path #For debugging purposes
if not os.path.exists(path):
os.mkdir(path)
temp_file=open(path+'/'+img_alt+'.jpg','w')
temp_file.write(buff)
temp_file.close()
print " ... Done"
I get the error
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'Some Path Name'
Path is of the form 'Folder Name with un-escaped spaces'
What am I doing wrong here?
Update: I tried running the code without creating the directory
path=chap_name
print "Path : "+chap_path #For debugging purposes
temp_file=open(img_alt+'.jpg','w')
temp_file.write(buff)
temp_file.close()
print " ... Done"
Still get an error. Confused further.
Update 2:The Problem seems to be the img_alt, it contains a '/' in some cases, which makes is causing the trouble.
So I need to handle the '/'. Is there anyway to escape the '/' or is deletion the only option?
import os
path = chap_name
if not os.path.exists(path):
os.makedirs(path)
filename = img_alt + '.jpg'
with open(os.path.join(path, filename), 'wb') as temp_file:
temp_file.write(buff)
Key point is to use os.makedirs in place of os.mkdir. It is recursive, i.e. it generates all intermediate directories. See http://docs.python.org/library/os.html
Open the file in binary mode as you are storing binary (jpeg) data.
In response to Edit 2, if img_alt sometimes has '/' in it:
img_alt = os.path.basename(img_alt)
import os
os.mkdir('directory name') #### this command for creating directory
os.mknod('file name') #### this for creating files
os.system('touch filename') ###this is another method for creating file by using unix commands in os modules
Source: Stackoverflow.com