Re: simple error i hope

[Clay Hobbs]

On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 13:25 -0700, Emile van Sebille wrote:

suhail shaik wrote:
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print fileName
file = fileName.split( ".")

......^^^^ this is a list
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you're shadowing a builtin -- generally a bad practice
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print file
textfile = file[0]+".txt"
print textfile
os.chdir(PNAME)
file(textfile,' wt')

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......^^^^ and this is why
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HTH,
>
Emile
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It is also a good idea to open files with the open() function and not the
file() function. They do the exact same thing, and take the exact same
parameters, just open() makes your code a bit more readable (or at least
that's what I think).

--Ratfink