How to write external files?

[connorofford]

Hello I'm a bit knew to python, i know mostly the basics and some of the advanced stuff but i'm stumped on how to create text.txt files in the game folder.
you know..
breaking the 4th wall and stuff
is there any way i can do that, if so please explain to me as if im a 3 year old cause i have no god damn clue

[connorofford]

Dw i figured it out lol
$ f = open("filename.txt","w+")
$ f.write("text")
$ f.close()

puts file in game directory

[PyTom]

Note that this might not work on all platforms. It's actually a really hard problem, since the game's directory might not be writeable on all platforms. (It probably isn't on mac, iOS, and Android.)

[Apa]

Note that this might not work on all platforms. It's actually a really hard problem, since the game's directory might not be writeable on all platforms. (It probably isn't on mac, iOS, and Android.)

Saves folder and its parent (where trace file is written) should be writable on platforms, right?

[Imperf3kt]

On Android, apps have access to read and execute from folders, but they do not have permission to write.

Saving is done in another folder where it does have permission to write, perhaps you could work out how to use that folder?

[Donmai]

Just a guess, but if connorofford question is related to the way DDLC plays with its internal files, I'm also intrigued and I believe what that game does is extract those .chr files from its .rpa archives. I don't know if that's the way it really works, but anyone interested may take a look here: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/file_pyt ... ile-access
Don't know if that solves the problem of the game directory not being writable is some OS. I'm not even a programmer and I may be talking hf@ls#rh$jf& here.

[trajano]

@Imperf3kt where would we be able to write files in Android?

[Imperf3kt]

I'm afraid this is something I never looked into so can't help with, sorry.

[trajano]

Its okay, I found a workaround using io.BytesIO which provides me an in-memory file that I can manipulate as needed. So viewtopic.php?f=51&t=55866 works on Android as well.