🔒 Working with Pathlib to set path directory to print new .txt files

[robust rune]

I'm currently working on the project in chapter 11 of automate the boring stuff with python and I'm noticing that when I run the first version of the code it ends up creating the files on the main directory instead of in the folder that I would like it to. I am so confused I've read the documentation and watched 3 videos and can't understand why it's not doing what I want it to do.

[grand ivy]

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[lapis mango]

Path("quizes") refers to a quizes in the directory your script is being run from.

[robust rune]

So I have my realitive directory set up as /automatetheboringstuff/randomQuizGenerator.py and I want to create the folder /automatetheboringstuff/quizes and have the script write the files to the quizes folder.

I've tried .joinpath() and it doesn't seem to work

[lapis mango]

You want to:

• get the full path to your code (that's called __file__)
• get the directory part of that
• append quizes to that
  Something like:

codepath = Path(__file__)
print(f'{codepath=}')
dirpath = codepath.parent
print(f'{dirpath=}')
quizpath = dirpath / 'quizes'
print(f'{quizpath=}')
quizfile = quizpath / f'capitalquiz(quiz_num + 1).txt'
print(f'{quizfile=}')

Run that, see how the paths are constructed.

[robust rune]

Okay that makes sense now. I didn't know about file. But the for loop that I have constructed in the original photo is still producing the files in the automatetheboringstuff folder not in the new quizes folder

[lapis mango]

Have you modified it to use quizpath?
Have you printed the filenames you're writing to?

[robust rune]

Yes i modified it a little bit:

quizFolder = Path(file).parent / 'quizes'
quizFolder.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
print(f'{quizFolder=}')
capitals = {'Alabama': 'Montgomery', 'Alaska': 'Juneau', 'Arizona':
'Phoenix', 'Arkansas': 'Little Rock', 'California': 'Sacramento', 'Colorado':
'Denver', 'Connecticut': 'Hartford', 'Delaware': 'Dover', 'Florida':
'Tallahassee', 'Georgia': 'Atlanta', 'Hawaii': 'Honolulu', 'Idaho': 'Boise',
'Illinois': 'Springfield', 'Indiana': 'Indianapolis', 'Iowa': 'Des Moines',
'Kansas': 'Topeka', 'Kentucky': 'Frankfort', 'Louisiana': 'Baton Rouge',
'Maine': 'Augusta', 'Maryland': 'Annapolis', 'Massachusetts': 'Boston',
'Michigan': 'Lansing', 'Minnesota': 'Saint Paul', 'Mississippi': 'Jackson',
'Missouri': 'Jefferson City', 'Montana': 'Helena', 'Nebraska': 'Lincoln',
'Nevada': 'Carson City', 'New Hampshire': 'Concord', 'New Jersey': 'Trenton',
'New Mexico': 'Santa Fe', 'New York': 'Albany', 'North Carolina': 'Raleigh',
'North Dakota': 'Bismarck', 'Ohio': 'Columbus', 'Oklahoma': 'Oklahoma City',
'Oregon': 'Salem', 'Pennsylvania': 'Harrisburg', 'Rhode Island': 'Providence',
'South Carolina': 'Columbia', 'South Dakota': 'Pierre', 'Tennessee':
'Nashville', 'Texas': 'Austin', 'Utah': 'Salt Lake City', 'Vermont':
'Montpelier', 'Virginia': 'Richmond', 'Washington': 'Olympia',
'West Virginia': 'Charleston', 'Wisconsin': 'Madison', 'Wyoming': 'Cheyenne'}

for quiz_num in range(35):
# TODO: Create the quiz and answer key files.
quiz_file = open(f'capitalsquiz{quiz_num + 1}.txt', 'w', encoding='UTF-8')

answer_file = open(
    f'capitalsquiz_answers{quiz_num + 1}', 'w', encoding='UTF-8')

Now it is creating the right file path

[lapis mango]

See this line?

    quiz_file = open(f'capitalsquiz{quiz_num + 1}.txt', 'w', encoding='UTF-8')

It's not making any use of quizFolder.

Stick quizFolder/ after open(

[robust rune]

My god. I was putting the code as ```py
quiz_file = open(f'capitalsquiz{quiz_num + 1}.txt', 'w', encoding='UTF-8')

also how do i make my text look cleaner when writing code in discord

[lapis mango]

!code

[grand ivy]

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[lapis mango]

So

```py
your code
goes here
```

You can go back and edit the previous message to test that.

[grand ivy]

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