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Python Python for File Systems Manipulation Daily Backup

Posted by Jaïr Veder
Jaïr Veder
6,545 Points

Create daily dir not being accepted

Hi,

I've created the function, but I am getting an error message that I am not getting the right response for (year-month-day) input.

Anybody knows whats going wrong?

Jair

backup.py 
import os

def create_daily_dir(date_string):
    date_string_splitted = date_string.split("-")
    if len(date_string_splitted[0]) != 4:
        date_string = date_string_splitted[2] + "-" + date_string_splitted[0] + "-" + date_string_splitted[1]
    total_path = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), date_string)
    os.makedirs(total_path, exist_ok=True)
    return None

1 Answer

Bart Bruneel
Bart Bruneel
27,212 Points
Bart Bruneel
Bart Bruneel
27,212 Points

Hello Jaïr,

You should change the following line in your solution:

total_path = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), date_string)

to 

total_path="financial/"+date_string

If you use os.getcwd() you will get the whole path to the current working directory from the root, so if you join it with your date_string and use os.makedirs you will get all of the folders in the joined path inside of your current working directory.

Hope this helps,

Bart