Saving Files In New Directory (python) -

i'm trying take input file , save new folder on computer, can't figure out how correctly.

here code tried:

from os.path import join pjoin = raw_input("file name: ") filepath = "c:\documents , settings\user\my documents\'a'" fout = open(filepath, "w") path_to_file = pjoin("c:\documents , settings user\my documents\dropbox",'a') file = open(path_to_file, "w") 

when run it, it's putting 2 \ in between each sub-directory instead of 1 , it's telling me it's not existing file or directory.

i sure there easier way this, please help.

why have unescaped "'quotes_like_this_inside_quotes'"? may reason failure.

from can understand, directories saving "c:\documents , settings\user\my documents\' , 'c:\documents , settings\user\my documents\'.

whenever messing directories/paths use os.expanduser('~/something/blah').

try this:

from os.path import expanduser, join  path_to_file1 = join(expanduser('~/dropbox/'), 'a') path_to_file2 = join(expanduser('~'), 'a') fout = open(path_to_file2, "w") file = open(path_to_file1, "w") 

and double-backslashes ok, afaik. let me know if works - i'm not on windows box @ moment.