Re: noobie mkdir problem/question

2006-03-25 Thread Larry Bates
Except for the fact that I don't have any idea where "given" variable comes from. This works perfectly for me. It writes data into /xrefs/given.log perfectly. In the future you should cut/paste your code so we can see enough to help better. Here is my code with a few changes. import os import s

Re: noobie mkdir problem/question

2006-03-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
First, what version of python are you using? 2.4.2 (and some previous versions) use file() instead of open(), although open may still work. also, if your code in the previous post is still using: outputFname = given + '.log' outputFile = open(os.path.join(xrefs,outputFname), 'w') I hope you have

Re: noobie mkdir problem/question

2006-03-25 Thread ProvoWallis
I understand that but I'm still puzzled. Is this the reason why I can't write files to this directory? The xrefs directory is created the way I expect it would be using mkdir but I can't seem to write to it. I thought that my results would be written to the xrefs directory here but they're ending

Re: noobie mkdir problem/question

2006-03-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
if (os.path.isdir(xrefs) == 0): os.mkdir(xrefs) os.path.isdir(stuff) returns True or False -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

noobie mkdir problem/question

2006-03-25 Thread ProvoWallis
Hi, I'm trying to write a script that will create a new directory and then write the results to this newly created directory but it doesn't seem to work for me and I don't know why. I'm hoping someone can see my mistake or at least point me in the right direction. I start like this capturing the