[shulgin]

Hey guys,

Am wanting to attach the date to the name of a text file that gets generated as a result of a whole heap of user inputs.

What I have done is save the name of the file as a variable called name. When I do this everything runs fine and I don't have any issues.

However when I try to attach a date (saved as a string) it comes up with this


Traceback (most recent call last):
File "datalogger.py", line 165, in <module>
f = open(name + ".txt", "w")
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'new23/8/2012.txt'

This is how I get the date

from datetime import datetime
now = datetime.now()
current_year = now.year
current_month = now.month
current_day = now.day

date = str(now.day) + "/" + str(now.month) + "/" + str(now.year)

this is how I get the file name and add the variable date to it

name = raw_input("What would you like to name yoru file ?: \n")
name = name + str(date)

and this is how I'm writing the file

f = open(name + ".txt", "w")
f.write(users inputs here) 

When I just keep the name as the user defines all works fine but when I add the variable date to it the file wont write.

Any help is appreciated

Cheers

Aaron

[shulgin]

Solved the problem,

For those wanting to know how I think the "/" were causing the programe to try and find a separate directory as opposed to writing in the directory where the .py file is. I simply replaced the "/" with "-" and all works fine !!!

Cheers anyway

Aaron