Getting a path from a file object

[Andrew Fong]

Newbie question:

Let's say I open a new file for writing in a certain path. How do I
get that path back?

Example:

>>f = open('/some/path/file.ext')
>>some_function (f)

'/some/path/file.ext'

Does some_function(f ) already exist? And if not, how would I define
it?

-- Andrew

[bruno.desthuilliers@gmail.com]

Re: Getting a path from a file object

On 4 juil, 20:37, Andrew Fong <FongAnd...@gma il.comwrote:

Newbie question:
>
Let's say I open a new file for writing in a certain path. How do I
get that path back?
>
Example:
>

>f = open('/some/path/file.ext')
>some_function( f)

>
'/some/path/file.ext'
>
Does some_function(f ) already exist?

Nope. But:

And if not, how would I define
it?

Not sure it's worth defining a function:

def some_function(f ):
return f.name

-- Andrew

[Ken Starks]

Re: Getting a path from a file object

Andrew Fong wrote:

Newbie question:
>
Let's say I open a new file for writing in a certain path. How do I
get that path back?
>
Example:
>

>>>f = open('/some/path/file.ext')
>>>some_functio n(f)

'/some/path/file.ext'
>
Does some_function(f ) already exist? And if not, how would I define
it?
>
-- Andrew

Read about f.name which is a kind of read-only attribute with caveats
in the documentation:

http://docs.python.org/lib/bltin-file-objects.html