Telling Python to save a txt file to a certain directory on Windows and Mac

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How do you tell Python where to save a text file   For example  my computer is running the Python file off my desktop  I want it to save all the text file in my documents folder  not on my desktop  How do I do that in a script like this   name of file   raw input  What is the name of the file     completeName   name of file     txt   Alter this line in any shape or form it is up to you  file1   open completeName    w    toFile   raw input  Write what you want into the field    file1 write toFile   file1 close

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Use os path join to combine the path to the Documents directory with the completeName  filename   supplied by the user   import os with open os path join   path to Documents  completeName    w   as file1      toFile   raw input  Write what you want into the field       file1 write toFile    If you want the Documents directory to be relative to the user s home directory  you could use something like   os path join os path expanduser       Documents  completeName      Others have proposed using os path abspath  Note that os path abspath does not resolve     to the user s home directory   In  10   cd  tmp  tmp  In  11   os path abspath      Out 11     tmp

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Just use an absolute path when opening the filehandle for writing   import os path  save path    C  example    name of file   raw input  What is the name of the file      completeName   os path join save path  name of file   txt             file1   open completeName   w    toFile   raw input  Write what you want into the field    file1 write toFile   file1 close     You could optionally combine this with os path abspath   as described in Bryan s answer to automatically get the path of a user s Documents folder  Cheers

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If you want to save a file to a particular DIRECTORY and FILENAME here is some simple example   It also checks to see if the directory has or has not been created   import os path directory      html   filename    file html  file path   os path join directory  filename  if not os path isdir directory       os mkdir directory  file   open file path   w   file write html  file close     Hope this helps you

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Another simple way without using import OS is   outFileName  F   folder  folder  filename txt  outFile open outFileName   w   outFile write    Hello my name is ABCD     outFile close

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A small update to this  raw input   is renamed as input   in Python 3    Python 3 release note

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Just give your desired path if file does not exist earlier          from os path import abspath         with open   C   Users  Admin  Desktop  results txt   mode    w   as final1              print final1 write  This is my new file              print f Text has been processed and saved at  abspath final1 name      Output will be  Text has been processed and saved at C  Users Admin Desktop results txt

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Using an absolute or relative string as the filename    name of file   input  What is the name of the file     completeName     home user Documents   name of file     txt  file1   open completeName    w   toFile   input  Write what you want into the field   file1 write toFile  file1 close

[python] Telling Python to save a .txt file to a certain directory on Windows and Mac

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