Question

I am currently working on a script that does some things to Windows directories and I can’t seem to figure out what I am doing wrong. Here is the relevant excerpt of the code.

    import os
    user = os.environ['USERNAME']
    os.chdir("/users/%s/dekstop") % user

But when I do that, it gives the the following error,

WindowsError: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified: '/users/%s/desktop'

Is there a reason why the string formatting wouldn’t be working?

Answer 1

The % users should be within the parentheses:

os.chdir("/users/%s/dekstop" % user)