write()

[manuhack]

I copied the lines

f=open('/tmp/workfile', 'w')
print f
f.close()

from Python 2.4 Documentation 7.2. But it said IOerror No such file or
directory" '/tmp/workfile'

Is it something about the os? I'm using Python 2.4 under WinXP.
Thanks. Without / I can open it.

[miker2@optusnet.com.au]

Re: write()


manuhack wrote:

I copied the lines
>
f=open('/tmp/workfile', 'w')
print f
f.close()
>
from Python 2.4 Documentation 7.2. But it said IOerror No such file or
directory" '/tmp/workfile'
>
Is it something about the os? I'm using Python 2.4 under WinXP.
Thanks. Without / I can open it.

f=open(r'c:\bla h\blah').read()

[manuhack]

Re: write()

How about write mode? Changing r to w doesn't work...

miker2@optusnet .com.au wrote:

manuhack wrote:

I copied the lines

f=open('/tmp/workfile', 'w')
print f
f.close()

from Python 2.4 Documentation 7.2. But it said IOerror No such file or
directory" '/tmp/workfile'

Is it something about the os? I'm using Python 2.4 under WinXP.
Thanks. Without / I can open it.

>
>
f=open(r'c:\bla h\blah').read()

[miker2@optusnet.com.au]

Re: write()


manuhack wrote:

How about write mode? Changing r to w doesn't work...
>
miker2@optusnet .com.au wrote:

manuhack wrote:

I copied the lines
>
f=open('/tmp/workfile', 'w')
print f
f.close()
>
from Python 2.4 Documentation 7.2. But it said IOerror No such file or
directory" '/tmp/workfile'
>
Is it something about the os? I'm using Python 2.4 under WinXP.
Thanks. Without / I can open it.

f=open(r'c:\bla h\blah').read()

what is it that you want to do??

in XP if i have or want to create a file in c:\ called test.txt i would
do this:

f = open(r'c:\test. txt', 'w')
f.write("rock the house party")
f.close()

[Rick Zantow]

Re: write()

"manuhack" <manuhack@gmail .comwrote in news:1153981114 .837884.232610
@p79g2000cwp.go oglegroups.com:

I copied the lines
>
f=open('/tmp/workfile', 'w')
print f
f.close()
>
from Python 2.4 Documentation 7.2. But it said IOerror No such file or
directory" '/tmp/workfile'
>
Is it something about the os? I'm using Python 2.4 under WinXP.
Thanks. Without / I can open it.
>

The problem is probably that you don't have a '/tmp' directory. WinXP
doesn't create a directory structure to match a file path specification. If
you first create the '/tmp' directory (which is a directory off the root of
your hard drive on WinXP, so that if your current directory is on a D:
drive it would be D:\tmp), then your code would work.

--
rzed

[manuhack]

Re: write()

Then is there any way to create a directory under XP using Python?

Rick Zantow wrote:

"manuhack" <manuhack@gmail .comwrote in news:1153981114 .837884.232610
@p79g2000cwp.go oglegroups.com:
>

I copied the lines

f=open('/tmp/workfile', 'w')
print f
f.close()

from Python 2.4 Documentation 7.2. But it said IOerror No such file or
directory" '/tmp/workfile'

Is it something about the os? I'm using Python 2.4 under WinXP.
Thanks. Without / I can open it.

>
The problem is probably that you don't have a '/tmp' directory. WinXP
doesn't create a directory structure to match a file path specification. If
you first create the '/tmp' directory (which is a directory off the root of
your hard drive on WinXP, so that if your current directory is on a D:
drive it would be D:\tmp), then your code would work.
>
--
rzed

[Dale Strickland-Clark]

Re: write()

manuhack wrote:

Then is there any way to create a directory under XP using Python?

import os
os.mkdir("C:\\m yosisbroken")

--
Dale Strickland-Clark
Riverhall Systems www.riverhall.co.uk

[Andy Salnikov]

Re: write()


"manuhack" <manuhack@gmail .comwrote in message
news:1153981114 .837884.232610@ p79g2000cwp.goo glegroups.com.. .

>I copied the lines
>
f=open('/tmp/workfile', 'w')
print f
f.close()
>
from Python 2.4 Documentation 7.2. But it said IOerror No such file or
directory" '/tmp/workfile'
>
Is it something about the os? I'm using Python 2.4 under WinXP.
Thanks. Without / I can open it.
>

In addition to what others said, if you need to open a temporary file,
it's better to use os.tmpfile() to get a file descriptor and not to
rely on magic file names like '/tmp/workfile'. So instead of open()
you should do:

import os

f = os.tmpfile()

This should work fine of both Windows and UNIX systems.

Andy.