write file path python code example

Example 1: python open file relative to script location

import os

path = 'a/relative/file/path/to/this/script/file.txt'

with open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), path), 'r') as input_file:
    content = input_file.read()

Example 2: path to create a text file in python

import os.path

save_path = 'C:/example/'

name_of_file = raw_input("What is the name of the file: ")

completeName = os.path.join(save_path, name_of_file+".txt")         

file1 = open(completeName, "w")

toFile = raw_input("Write what you want into the field")

file1.write(toFile)

file1.close()

Example 3: path to create a text file in python

outFileName="F:\\folder\\folder\\filename.txt"
outFile=open(outFileName, "w")
outFile.write("""Hello my name is ABCD""")
outFile.close()