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Python Python for File Systems Manipulation Daily Backup

Posted by Karen Shumate
Karen Shumate
13,579 Points

that by calling create_daily_dir("04-22-2017"), we'd have a directory structure like financial/2017-04-22/.

Need help. Point out what is wrong.

Thanks

backup.py 
import re
import os, sys

def create_daily_dir(string):
    year = re.search(r'\d{4}', string)
    day = re.search(r'\d{2}-\d{2}', string)
    string = "/create_daily_dir/financial"
    os.makedirs(os.string.join(os.getcwd(),'financial/' + year.group(0) + "-" + day.group(0)))

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points

You are very close! Three fixes should get you going again:

  • In the regular expression for the variable day, it is possible to get a false match from the last two digits of year followed by a hyphen. One way to avoid this false match is to include a boundary marker of a \b. As in:
r'\b\d{2}-\d{2}\b'

  • The second fix is to use os.path.join instead of os.string.join

  • the last fix is to omit the trailing / from financial since it is added by the join.

Post back if you need more help. Good luck!!!

Karen Shumate
Karen Shumate
13,579 Points

I am still getting Bummer.

import re
import os, sys


def create_daily_dir(string):
    year = re.search(r'\d{4}', string)
    day = re.search(r'\b\d{2}-\d{2}\b', string)
    string = "/create_daily_dir"
    os.makedirs(os.path.join(os.getcwd(),'financial/' + year.group(0) + "-" + day.group(0)))

[MOD: added ```python formatting -cf]

Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points

Very close. Remove the trailing / after “financial” since it is added by the path.join method. You effectively have a double slash.

Edit: never mind! Your code worked for me:

import re
import os, sys


def create_daily_dir(string):
    year = re.search(r'\d{4}', string)
    day = re.search(r'\b\d{2}-\d{2}\b', string)
    string = "/create_daily_dir"
    os.makedirs(os.path.join(os.getcwd(),'financial/' + year.group(0) + "-" + day.group(0)))