How to create and name a new folder from tkinter Entry widget input?

Question

I want the input, someone has put into the Entry widget (E1) of my Tkinter GUI, to be the name of the new folder, because every time someone inputs something, I need to have a new folder named after the input:

def create():
    folder = E1.get()
    newpath = r"C:\Users\....\folder" 
    if not os.path.exists(newpath):
        os.makedirs(newpath)

This creates a new folder, but it is named folder and not how I want it named (after the numbers entered into the Entry box (E1)).

Making it:

newpath = r"C:\Users\...\E1.get()"

gives me a folder called "E1.get()"

And secondly, but that hopefully comes with the answer to the first question, how do I get to see the input, without putting E1.get() into a variable? So is there a way to see it directly and maybe use that as the name of my new folder?

Use `newpath = os.path.join(r"C:\Users\Heinrich\Documents\Python\hope\", E1.get()) ` — eyllanesc, Jan 18 '18 at 00:09
Running it now, gives me a NameError in the "if-not" statement : name 'os' is not defined. I imported join from os.path so from os.path import join — hccavs19, Jan 18 '18 at 01:22
_'how do I get to see the input, without putting `E1.get()` into a variable?'_ What do you mean? Can't you visually see what's in the entry? or do you mean like `print(E1.get())`? `E1` is an entry widget and `E1.get()` is simply the `str` representation of what's written in that entry. — Nae, Jan 18 '18 at 12:05

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 18 '18 at 00:26

There are several ways to do this:

String formatting old style:

newpath = r"C:\Users\Heinrich\Documents\Python\hope\%s" % E1.get()

String formatting new style:

newpath = r"C:\Users\Heinrich\Documents\Python\hope\{}".format(E1.get())

Raw f(ormat)-strings (Python 3.6 only):

newpath = fr"C:\Users\Heinrich\Documents\Python\hope\{E1.get()}"

Use os.path.join as @eyllanesc stated:

from os.path import join
newpath = join(r"C:\Users\Heinrich\Documents\Python\hope", '1234'))

How to create and name a new folder from tkinter Entry widget input?

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