create a text file

[Stan Cook]

I'm writing a script to list all of my music files' id3 tags
to a comma delimited file. The only part I'm missing seems
like it should be the simplest. I haven't used Python for
the last couple of years. My question is this:

When I use os.open(<file_v ariable>,"w"), I get an error
message, TypeError: an integer is required. Has
something changed? Did I miss something???

Thanks,

-------------------> S Cook

[Fredrik Lundh]

Re: create a text file

Stan Cook wrote:
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> I'm writing a script to list all of my music files' id3 tags
> to a comma delimited file. The only part I'm missing seems
> like it should be the simplest. I haven't used Python for
> the last couple of years. My question is this:
>
> When I use os.open(<file_v ariable>,"w"), I get an error
> message, TypeError: an integer is required. Has
> something changed? Did I miss something???[/color]

the function is called "open", not "os.open".

there's an open function in the os module, but that's doing something
slightly different (see the library reference documentation for details
if you're curious).

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[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Re: create a text file

Stan Cook a écrit :[color=blue]
> I'm writing a script to list all of my music files' id3 tags to a comma
> delimited file. The only part I'm missing seems like it should be the
> simplest. I haven't used Python for the last couple of years. My
> question is this:
>
> When I use os.open(<file_v ariable>,"w"), I get an error message,
> TypeError: an integer is required. Has something changed? Did I miss
> something???[/color]

You want open() (the builtins one), not os.open().

Also, if you want to deal with csv files, you may want to check the csv
module (if you don't use it already).

[per9000]

Re: create a text file

Hi,

This is what I often do:

somekindofoutpu t = ''
somekindofoutpu t += somefunk(somear g) + '\n'

# w is for writing
myfile = open('theoutfil e',w)
myfile.write(so mekindofoutput)
myfile.close()

also see

http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/tut/node9.html

or some other documentation

/P9k

[Max Erickson]

Re: create a text file

"per9000" <per9000@gmail. com> wrote:
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> # w is for writing
> myfile = open('theoutfil e',w)[/color]

That won't work, the second argument to open needs to be a string:

myfile = open('theoutfil e', 'w')


max

[Fredrik Lundh]

Re: create a text file

Max Erickson wrote:
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>> # w is for writing
>> myfile = open('theoutfil e',w)[/color]
>
> That won't work, the second argument to open needs to be a string:[/color]

w = 'w'

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[Stan Cook]

Re: create a text file

Fredrik Lundh wrote:[color=blue]
> Stan Cook wrote:
>[color=green]
>> I'm writing a script to list all of my music files' id3 tags to a
>> comma delimited file. The only part I'm missing seems like it should
>> be the simplest. I haven't used Python for the last couple of years.
>> My question is this:
>>
>> When I use os.open(<file_v ariable>,"w"), I get an error
>> message, TypeError: an integer is required. Has something
>> changed? Did I miss something???[/color]
>
> the function is called "open", not "os.open".
>
> there's an open function in the os module, but that's doing something
> slightly different (see the library reference documentation for details
> if you're curious).
>
> </F>
>[/color]
Thanks, I found it.