Question

I’m trying to save myself from performing the old copy and past trick when saving files that Python generates. The default is saving to the Python directory, however I would like it to be: C:\Program Files\Vixen\Vixen 2.1.1.0\Routines

I have tried this:

import os
filename = raw_input('What would you like to name the file? ')
filepath = os.path.join("C:\Program Files\Vixen\Vixen 2.1.1.0\Routines",filename)
with open(filename, 'wb') as out:
    for frame in frames:
        out.write(' '.join(str(num) for num in frame))
        out.write(' ')
        out.write('\n')

And the error I get is this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "(stdin)", line 1 in (module)
  File "comet.py", line 169, in (module)
    filepath= os.path.join("C:\Program Files\Vixen\Vixen 2.1.1.0\Routines",filename)
NameError: name 'os' is not defined  

How can I get Python to save the file directly into the desired path?

Answer 1

You forgot to load the os library. You can do that with import os prior to your code.

Edit: Another problem is that you are defining the path variable but are not using it anywhere apart from the assignment.
Try to change the following:

with open(filename, 'wb') as out: to with open(filepath, 'wb') as out: