🔒 help with saving a file

[bold mantle]

@olive spade

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[remote zephyr]

add py behind the backticks then it looks like this

elif opts == 10:
    print("Filename: ")
    filename = input("$| ")
    print("Contents: ")
    contents = input("$| ")

    if not filename.endswith(".txt"):
        filename += ".txt"

    file_path = os.path.abspath(filename)

    with open(filename, 'w') as file:
        file.write(contents)

    print(f"Text successfully saved to {file_path}")

which is much more readably

[olive spade]

it didnt work, but for some reason VSCode doesnt let me run scripts so i couldnt see what the error was

[remote zephyr]

but why do you use abspath? it would automatically be stored in the same folder when you just use the filename. and the os module is part of the standard library you do not need to install it, it comes with python

[olive spade]

yes i know i put "import os" at the far beggening of my code

[remote zephyr]

but nevertheless, the code works for me

[fleet depot]

happens if you don't save the file

and i mean ur python file

[olive spade]

i save it a lot

it tells me error in line 1 invalid sytax

this is line 1

```import time````

[remote zephyr]

are you sure that the opts == 10 condition is true? because the storing logic works

[olive spade]

yes

its an input

[remote zephyr]

what is the error message

[fleet depot]

is there a ready squiggly line under it? if there is hover over it, should give more details

[olive spade]

no

& C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps/python3.11.exe "c:/Users/user/OneDrive/Desktop/the cool.py"
File "<stdin>", line 1
& C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps/python3.11.exe "c:/Users/user/OneDrive/Desktop/the cool.py"
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[remote zephyr]

there is a & before your path

[olive spade]

how do i remove that?

[remote zephyr]

i do not know how it gets there since i do not have your code

[olive spade]

its alr

ill figure i tout

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