[FIXED] open with not creating and writing file

Issue

I am following a tutorial (Beautiful Soup) and I can't seem to get open with to create a .txt file as I am getting this error: with open(f'posts/{index}.txt', 'w+') as f: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'posts/1.txt'. I tried looking up different solutions to my problem currently running python 3.9. Is there another step I need to correct this issue?

Solution

The interpreter isn't finding the directory "posts" in your current working directory. If it exists, you are not in its parent directory. Try using the full path, e.g. rf'C:\users\myuser\posts\{index}.txt' or rf'~/posts/{index}.txt' on linux.

Or, if it doesnt't exist, add these lines:

import os
os.mkdir('posts')

You can find your current working directory this way:

import os
os.path.abspath('.')

Answered By - AlecZ