I/O Operations .....

[Daniel Nogradi]

> > > I am parsing an XML file and sending the output to two files.The
> > > code asks the user to enter the input file,something like:
> >
> > > file_input = raw_input("Enter The ODX File Path:")
> > > input_xml = open(file_input,'r')
> >
> > >   Now suppose the user enters the path as :
> > > C:\Projects\ODX Import\Sample Files\Global _A_UHP_Low_0.7.odx.xml
> >
> > >  I have 2 output files to which i have to redirect the output.The
> > > output file name should be same as input file in the same path ( the
> > > extension has to change to a format "ini" which is basically text file
> > > opened using notepad).Eg..
> > > output files should be :
> > > C:\Projects\ODX Import\Sample Files\Global _A_UHP_Low_0.7.ini,   and,
> > > C:\Projects\ODX Import\Sample Files\Global _A_UHP_Low_0.7.xls
> >
> > If you only would like to know how to write files, this might help:
> >
> > content1 = ..............
> > content2 = ...............
> >
> > f = open( 'file1', 'w' )
> > f.write( content1 )
> > f.close( )
> >
> > f = open( 'file2', 'w' )
> > f.write( content2 )
> > f.close( )
> >
> > HTH,
> > Daniel- Hide quoted text -
> >
> > - Show quoted text -
>
>          Hi,
>             File writing can be done in that way,but my query is
> something different.I have to rename the output file by default with
> input file name(only changing the extension.


Maybe something like this will help (on Linux, Windows is similar):

>>> from os import path
>>> f = '/tmp/hello.xls'
>>> path.splitext( f )
('/tmp/hello', '.xls')
>>> path.dirname( f )
'/tmp'
>>> path.basename( f )
'hello.xls'


Daniel