I am new at python and learning the language. The following code should create a file in the running program directory and write to it but it doesn't do this at all in a .py file. If I put the same code in the IDLE shell it returns 17. No errors just doesn't create the file. What am I doing wrong?
with open("st.txt", "w") as f:
f.write("Hi from Python!")
Thanks for the help
Mike
This code is flawless, no problem!
I guess that in your REPL shell, the $PWD environment variable is set for somewhere, so your destination file is in some corner.
No exception thrown indicates that no problem with access authority.
Maybe you can set some absolute path string, such as ~/st.txt
By the way, the successful invoke should return 15 instead of 17, totally count 15 chars.
your code works well, st.txt will be touched at executing path.
other ways, your system account can't write in your execute path.
try in your $HOME path to execute your code, I think, It will work well
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I am trying to replicate another researcher's findings by using the Python file that he added as a supplement to his paper. It is the first time I am diving into Python, so the error might be extremely simple to fix, yet after two days I haven't still. For context, in the Readme file there's the following instruction:
"To run the script, make sure Python2 is installed. Put all files into one folder designated as “cf_dir”.
In the script I get an error at the following lines:
if __name__ == '__main__':
cf_dir, cf_file, cf_phys_file = sys.argv[1:4]
os.chdir(cf_dir)
cf = pd.read_csv(cf_file)
cf_phys = pd.read_csv(cf_phys_file)
ValueError: need more than 0 values to unpack
The "cf_file" and "cf_phys_file" are two major components of all files that are in the one folder named "cf_dir". The "cf_phys_file" relates only to two survey question's (Q22 and Q23), and the "cf_file" includes all other questions 1-21. Now it seems that the code is meant to retrieve those two files from the directory? Only for the "cf_phys_file" the columns 1:4 are needed. The current working directory is already set at the right location.
The path where I located "cf_dir" is as follows:
C:\Users\Marc-Marijn Ossel\Documents\RSM\Thesis\Data\Suitable for ML\Data en Artikelen\Per task Suitability for Machine Learning score readme\cf_dir
Alternative option in readme file,
In the readme file there's this option, but also here I cannot understand how to direct the path to the right location:
"Run the following command in an open terminal (substituting for file names
below): python cfProcessor_AEAPnP.py cf_dir cf_file cf_phys_file task_file jobTaskRatingFile
jobDataFile OESfile
This should generate the data and plots as necessary."
When I run that in "Command Prompt", I get the following error, and I am not sure how to set the working directory correctly.
- python: can't open file 'cfProcessor_AEAPnP.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Thanks for the reading, and I hope there's someone who could help me!
Best regards & stay safe out there during Corona!!
Marc
cf_dir, cf_file, cf_phys_file = sys.argv[1:4]
means, the python file expects few arguments when called.
In order to run
python cfProcessor_AEAPnP.py cf_dir cf_file cf_phys_file task_file jobTaskRatingFile jobDataFile OESfile
the command prompt should be in that folder.
So, open command prompt and type
cd path_to_the_folder_where_ur_python_file_is_located
Now, you would have reached the path of the python file.
Also, make sure you give full path in double quotes for the arguments.
I'm following along with the examples in a translated version of Wes McKinney's "Python for Data Analysis" and I was blocked in first example of Chapter 2
I think my problem arose because I saved a data file in a wrong path. is that right?
I stored a file, usagov_bitly_data2012-03-16-1331923249.txt, in C:\Users\HRR
and also stored folder, pydata-book-mater, that can be downloaded from http://github.com/pydata-book in C:\Users\HRR\Anaconda2\Library\bin.
Depends.
You might change the location you save your File or eddit the path you give to your code in Line 10. Since you're yousing relativ Paths i guess your script runs in C:\Users\HRR\Anaconda2\Library\bin, which means you have to go back to C:\Users\HRR or use an absolute Path ... or move the File, but hell you don't want to move a file every time you want to open it, like moving word files into msoffice file to open it, so try to change the Path.
And allways try harder ;)
In python open() will open from the current directory down unless given a full path (in linux that starts with / and windows <C>://). In your case the command is open the folder ch02 in the directory the script is running from and then open usagov_bitly_data2012-03-16-1331923249.txt in that folder.
Since you are storing the text file in C:\Users\HRR\usagov_bitly_data2012-03-16-1331923249.txt and you did not specify the directory of the script. I recommend the following command instead open(C:\\Users\\HRR\\usagov_bitly_data2012-03-16-1331923249.txt)
Note: the double \ is to escape the characters and avoid tabs and newlines showing up in the path.
I am attempting to run this .PY file from Command Prompt:
# Merge two .BSG files
# Starting block and world position are taken from the first file
# Example: "bsgmerge input.bsg output.bsg merged.bsg"
import io, sys
one = open(sys.argv[1]).readlines()
two = open(sys.argv[2]).readlines()
for n in [1,3,5,7,9,11,17,19,21,23]:
one[n] = one[n][:-1]+"|"+two[n].partition("|")[2]
open(sys.argv[3],"w").write("".join(one))
It is a program that takes a creation from the game Beseige and merges it with another saved creation so that opening the merged file results in both creations being present. If you want more details, you can read up on that here.
I am having trouble figuring out how to call this program from the command line. At first I thought the problem was me having Python 2 (it requires Python 3), so I uninstalled 2 and installed 3. This did not help.
What I am doing is entering the "python" command to pull up the Python environment within CMD, then entering the command to call the program based on the third comment in the file ("bsgmerge input.bsg output.bsg merged.bsg").
I tried using full file paths or simply changing to the correct directory before typing the "python" command and using only the file names, but so far I've had no luck.
When I am in the correct directory, then enter the Python environment, typing the command "bsgmerge 1.bsg 2.bsg M.bsg" (my existing files to be merged are 1.bsg and 2.bsg), this error occurs:
File "<stdin>", line 1
bsgmerge 1.bsg 2.bsg M.bsg
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
I took a Python course (which is why I used to have Python 2 on my machine) last fall, so I noticed that there is no "def" defining a function in the above code, which is something I've never encountered, so I'm thinking that is the root of my problems.
Thanks in advance for the help.
I was probably same problem with python launcher.
If you use Linux, first line shoud be:
#! /path/to/your/python/3
In Windows it some more complicated:
In registry by regedit change
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Python.File\shell\open\command from "C:\Python27\python.exe" "%1" %* to "C:\Windows\py.exe" "%1" %*.
And first line of script shoud be:
#! python3
Now it shoud work properly.
I am trying to write a small program in bash and part of it needs to be able to get some values from a txt file where the different files are separated by a line, and then either add each line to a variable or add each line to one array.
So far I have tried this:
FILE=$"transfer_config.csv"
while read line
do
MYARRAY[$index]="$line"
index=$(($index+1))
done < $FILE
echo ${MYARRAY[0]}
This just produces a blank line though, and not what was on the first line of the config file.
I am not returned with any errors which is why I am not too sure why this is happening.
The bash script is called though a python script using os.system("$HOME/bin/mcserver_config/server_transfer/down/createRemoteFolder"), but if I simply call it after the python program has made the file which the bash script reads, it works.
I am almost 100% sure it is not an issue with the directories, because pwd at the top of the bash script shows it in the correct directory, and the python program is also creating the data file in the correct place.
Any help is much appreciated.
EDIT:
I also tried the subprocess.call("path_to_script", shell=True) to see if it would make a difference, I know it is unlikely but it didn't.
I suspect that when calling the bash script from python, having just created the file, you are not really finished with that file: you should either explicitly close the file or use a with construct.
Otherwise, the written data is still in any buffer (from the file object, or in the OS, or wherever). Only closing (or at least flushing) the file makes sure the data is indeed in the file.
BTW, instead of os.system, you should use the subprocess module...
I am writing a program which needs to open and access the contents of 110 different text files, which I have stored in various folders and sub-folders on my computer (which is running Windows 7). I've defined variables for all of my files within the program, as follows:
#Arno Holz, Buch der Zeit 1886, 1892
Holz_raw = r"C:\Users\Carolyn\Desktop\Dissertation Texts (txt)\Poetry\1850-1900 (txt)\Arno Holz.txt"
Holz = open(Holz_raw, 'r', encoding='utf-8').read()
#Felix Dahn, Balladen 1878
Dahn_raw = r'C:\Users\Carolyn\Desktop\Dissertation Texts\Poetry\1850-1900 (txt)\Felix Dahn.txt'
Dahn = open(Dahn_raw, 'r', encoding='utf-8').read()
... and so on.
When I try to run the program, however, I get a message that says "no such file or directory".
Strangely, it works when I type
open(r'C:\Users\Carolyn\Desktop\Dissertation Texts\Poetry\1850-1900 (txt)\Felix Dahn.txt', 'r', encoding='utf-8')
into the interpreter.
It also works when I save the file to my desktop directly and then supply that path as the first argument to open() within my program. (This works in the interpreter, too).
Do I need to save all 110 files to my desktop to get Python to recognize them? Any ideas as to why this might be happening?
I have looked all over the internet and haven't been able to find an answer. I've also spent hours and hours poring over various Python manuals...
I'd be grateful for any assistance you might be able to provide!
I figured out what was causing the problem, and fixed it. The file paths for the two types of file are indeed different; not sure what happened there! Also, a friend recommended that I change the current working directory in IDLE, which it hadn't occurred to me to do. Did that -- problem solved!