In Linux environment, I want to create a file and write text into it:
HTMLFILE: "$MYUSER/OUTPUT/myfolder/mytext.html"
f = open(HTMLFILE, 'w')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: "$MYUSER/OUTPUT/myfolder/mytext.html"
I have read/write permission do "$MYUSER/OUTPUT/myfolder/" directories.
Why do I get this error? Why doesn't it create mytext.html file?
os.path.expandvars() can help:
f = open(os.path.expandvars(HTMLFILE), 'w')
open only deals with actual file names. expandvars can expand environment variables in strings.
There are two ways. Using os.environ() to get variable value
HTML_PATH = "/OUTPUT/myfolder/mytext.html"
f = open(os.environ('MYUSER') + HTMLFILE, 'w')
and using os.path.expandvars():
HTMLFILE = "$MYUSER/OUTPUT/myfolder/mytext.html"
f = open(os.path.expandvars(HTMLFILE), 'w')
$MYUSER refers to a shell variable. Python does not resolve those. Use the os package to get the users home directory through os.getenv('MYUSER')
