system programign

[oqestra@yahoo.com]

may i use python to read a file and output its content to another file
which is not created yet and i don't want to use ">" to do this in
linux? how do you do ? oqestra.

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

Re: system programign

In <1154187469.197 018.295030@p79g 2000cwp.googleg roups.com>, oqestra wrote:

may i use python to read a file and output its content to another file
which is not created yet and i don't want to use ">" to do this in
linux?

Read the documentation about `open()`. Simple example:

in_file = open('old.txt', 'r')
out_file = open('new.txt', 'w')
for line in in_file:
out_file.write( line)
in_file.close()
out_file.close( )

how do you do ?

I'm fine, thanks. ;-)

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch