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On 11/11/2013 5:26 PM, Matt wrote:
> So I want to take the file, "desktop/test.txt" and write it to "desktop/newfolder/test.txt". I tried the below script, and it gave me: "IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'desktop/%s.txt'". Any suggestions would be great.
>
>
>
> def firstdev(file):
> 	in_file = open("desktop/%s.txt") % file
The problem is the above line. Rewrite is thus:

	in_file = open("desktop/%s.txt" % file)


> 	indata = in_file.read()
> 	out_file = open("desktop/newfolder/%s.txt", 'w') % file
Same here:
>          out_file = open("desktop/newfolder/%s.txt"% file, 'w')
>
>
> 	out_file.write(indata)
> 	out_file.close()
> 	in_file.close()
Also don't get in the habit of reassigning built-in functions e;g; file.
> 	
> firstdev("test")


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