Search code examples
pythontext-filespython-itertools

Repeatedly create files with counter in Python

Bascially what I want to do is writing a python script that creates files with a count-number in the filename, "file 1.txt" "file 2.txt" "file 3.txt" for example.

I have come this far:

import shutil, os, itertools


for i in itertools.count():
    file = open("FILE " + str(i) + ".txt", 'w+')
    print(i)
    time.sleep(1)

Basically what I can do is count, but the file creation is my problem. open() doesnt seem to work.How do i create these files and how can I choose the directorys to store the files?

Solution 
  • import shutil, os, itertools
import time

dirpath = 'c:\\usr\\'
for i in itertools.count():
    file = open(dirpath+"FILE " + str(i) + ".txt", 'w+')
    print(i)
    time.sleep(1)

    This will work. And your code works fine. I just added the directory path