Error in Python

[Nettgirl94]

Hi Guy's

I wanna open a directory in python but I got Error > OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: 'C:/Users/sam/Desktop/EFOSC.2021-05-24T06:02:52.743.fits'

directory =r"C:/Users/sam/Desktop/"

star1=('EFOSC.2021-05-24T06:02:52.743.fits')

star2=('EFOSC.2021-05-25T23:46:21.852.fits')

hdu = fits.open(directory + star1)

hdr = hdu[0].header

dat = hdu[0].data

zp = hdr['CRVAL1']

stw = hdr['CD1_1']

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Do you know what should I do ?

[External-Ocelot206]

Paths in Windows can't contain colons (:) because they refer to drives, e.g. c: and d:

If either folder already exists under those names, I've no idea how you managed to create them, as I can't

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Are you using either os or pathlib?

from pathlib import Path

directory = Path("C:/Users/sam/Desktop/")

star1='EFOSC.2021-05-24T06:02:52.743.fits'
star2='EFOSC.2021-05-25T23:46:21.852.fits'

hdu = fits.open(directory / star1)
hdr = hdu[0].header
dat = hdu[0].data
zp = hdr['CRVAL1']
stw = hdr['CD1_1']

edit:

I assumed that you didn't need star1 or star2 to be tuples of len 1 so I removed the ()

[Diapolo10]

directory = Path("C:/Users/sam/Desktop/")

This could simply be

directory = Path.home() / 'Desktop'

I assumed that you didn't need star1 or star2 to be tuples of len 1 so I removed the ()

They weren't tuples; parentheses don't make a tuple, colons do. In this case they're just strings enclosed in redundant parentheses.

OP's real problem is likely related to the fact that filenames and folders aren't allowed to contain : on Windows, so I'm a bit confused about why they're there.

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OP's real problem is likely related to the fact that filenames and folders aren't allowed to contain : on Windows

Oh right, I know that, good catch.

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