Saving a directory with a variable name

Question

Pn = input("Give the name of the Project.")

import shutil as sl
sl.copytree(r"C:\Users\Desktop\Automate\Template\C", r"C:\User\Desktop\{Pn}")

What I want to do is save a copy of directory in specific location with user defined name. This just saves it with {Pn} as its name.

Answer 1

Use str.format

Ex:

Pn = input("Give the name of the Project.")

import shutil as sl
sl.copytree(r"C:\Users\Desktop\Automate\Template\C", r"C:\User\Desktop\{Pn}".format(Pn=Pn ))

Answer 2

Even though Rakesh's answer is perfectly fine, if you're using Python >= 3.6, you can also use f-strings for shorter syntax (note the added f before the second string):

Pn = input("Give the name of the Project.")

import shutil as sl
sl.copytree(r"C:\Users\Desktop\Automate\Template\C", rf"C:\User\Desktop\{Pn}")

A couple more things to note:

• PEP-8 suggests lowercase_with_underscore naming for variables, methods and functions (eg Pn should be pn )
• It is idiomatic to Python that variable names read as English rather than, obscured, low-level, shortened names (eg pn should be project_name ) - see The Zen of Python for more such "philosophical" principles
• It is generally a good idea to have imports right on top of your program, since you can easily check out its dependencies and fail-fast on ImportError (see this answer for more details)