os.mkdir simple help

m.wanstall at gmail.com m.wanstall at gmail.com
Sun Feb 19 02:51:42 EST 2006


Hi there,

I'm totally new to Python and was wondering why I was getting an error
for this. I'm just trying to create a folder based on user input:

import os

def setupProject(project):
    os.mkdir(project)
    os.chdir(project)

test = input("Please enter project name: ")
setupProject(test)

If I enter "roger" as my input I get : NameError: name 'roger' is not
defined

I know it's incredibly simple but help would be much appreciated!
Thanks in advance!




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