Question

I have a python script and I wrote it such that it will generate an output file to a new directory called test using these two lines:

self.mkdir_p("test") # create directory named "test"
file_out = open("test/"+input,"w")

and the mkdir_p function is as follow:

def mkdir_p(self,path):
    try:
        os.makedirs(path)
    except OSError as exc:
        if exc.errno == errno.EEXIST:
            pass
        else: raise

Now, I have all the files that I would like my script to run on stored in directory called storage, and my question is, how can I write a script such that I can run all the files in storage from my home directory(where my python script is located), and saved all the output to the test directory as I coded in my python script?

I did a naive approach in bash like:

#!/bin/bash

# get the directory name where the files are stored (storage)
in=$1

# for files in (storage) directory
for f in $1/*

do

  echo "Processing $f file..."
  ./my_python_script.py $f

done

and it didnt work and threw IOError: No such file or directory: 'test/storage/inputfile.txt'

I hope I explained my problem clear enough.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

$f is storage/inputfile.txt and Python prepends test/ to that, then complains because test/storage does not exist. Create the directory, or strip the directory part before creating the output file name.