How can I create a file with `/` in its file name?

Asked Apr 22 '15 at 17:20

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I'm writing a Crawler in Python and I'm trying to save the html of the crawled pages in a file with the name of the urls. However, the urls have slashes in it, which is probably the reason why my code below is not working.

path = "directory/subdirectory"
url = "http://stackoverflow.com/"
    file_path = path + "/" + url
      tmp = open(file_path, 'a')
      tmp.write(html)
      tmp.close()

How can I create a file with / in its name?

Please, consider that the directory/subdirectory already exists.

Update:

As our friend @jorgeh mentioned, we can convert the / to ASCII code. So, even though this question might be a duplicate, it has a different solution.

edited Apr 22 '15 at 17:32

asked Apr 22 '15 at 17:20

bmpasini

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Ok, then a nice solution would be converting `/` to ascii code... – bmpasini Apr 22 '15 at 17:25
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In your particular case, you could use `urllib` with the `safe` argument: `print urllib.quote("string/with/slashes", '')` – jorgeh Apr 22 '15 at 17:27
@jorgeh: I voted to reopen this question, so you can post it as an answer, because your solution worked for me. – bmpasini Apr 22 '15 at 17:41
Any reason you don't want to replace slashed with underscores? Or do you want to retain the full path? – Rcynic Apr 22 '15 at 18:57
yep, I need the full path – bmpasini Apr 22 '15 at 18:58

How can I create a file with `/` in its file name?

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