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The code that I am currently using is this: 

date = time.strftime("%d/%m/%y")
filename = ('attendence{}' + str(date) +'.txt')
f = open(filename, 'w+')

However, the error I receive is this:

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'attendence{}31/03/17.txt'

The error is not with other parts of my code as this will work.

f = open('attendence{}.txt', 'w+')

my end goal is to create a new file that contains the current date.

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    What do you want the name of the file to be? Commented Mar 31, 2017 at 19:21
  • I'm not sure what operating system you're on, but you generally can't use slashes in filenames; they'll be interpreted as directory separators. Commented Mar 31, 2017 at 19:22
  • attendance{}''datehere''.txt Commented Mar 31, 2017 at 19:22
  • You should use context management. with open(filename, 'w+') as f: ... Commented Mar 31, 2017 at 19:31
  • I would suggest removing the slashes, so date = time.strftime("%d%m%y") instead. Commented Mar 31, 2017 at 20:18

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The problem is with the date format :

date = time.strftime("%d/%m/%y")

You could try :

date = time.strftime("%d_%m_%y")

'attendence{}31/03/17.txt' isn't just a filename, it's a relative path with :

  • 1 folder : 'attendence{}31'
  • 1 subfolder : '03'
  • 1 filename '17.txt'.

Python is complaining that the folder 'attendence{}31/03' doesn't exist.

Note that {} might confuse the system, some programs or some users. If there's no information inside the curly brackets, you might as well remove them.

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Thank you for the answer have changed the date to have . instead of / and it now works!

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