How do I modify a filepath using the os.path module?

Question

My code

import os.path #gets the module
beginning = input("Enter the file name/path you would like to upperify: ")
inFile = open(beginning, "r") 
contents = inFile.read()
moddedContents = contents.upper() #makes the contents of the file all caps
head,tail = os.path.split(beginning) #supposed to split the path
new_new_name = "UPPER" + tail #adds UPPER to the file name
final_name = os.path.join(head + new_new_name) #rejoins the path and new file name
outFile = open(final_name, "w") #creates new file with new capitalized text 
outFile.write(moddedContents)
outFile.close()

I'm just trying to change the file name to add UPPER to the beginning to the file name via os.path.split(). Am I doing something wrong?

• vaultah: What's the point of calling os.path.join the way you do?
• anon582847382: Of course I don't know if you are doing something wrong- you haven't even said what isn't working!
• Syed Farjad Zia Zaidi: possible duplicate of How do I change the name of a file path correctly in Python?

Answer 1

Change

final_name = os.path.join(head + new_new_name)

to

final_name = head + os.sep + new_new_name

Answer 2

head from os.path.split doesn't have a trailing slash in the end. When you join the head and new_new_name by concatenating them

head + new_new_name 

you don't add that missing slash, so the whole path becomes invalid:

>>> head, tail = os.path.split('/etc/shadow')
>>> head
'/etc'
>>> tail
'shadow'
>>> head + tail
'/etcshadow'

The solution is to use os.path.join properly:

final_name = os.path.join(head, new_new_name)