Re: File operations

[Gary Herron]

aditya shukla wrote:

Hello guys
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I am trying to search a file say xyz.txt
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after searching i get the location of the file in
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search_file (containing abspath) ,eg search_file="c: \\abc\\xyz.txt"
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now how should i open this file
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i can use file=open("c:\\ abc\\xyz.txt"," rb") but i have to use search_
file

file=open(searc h_file,"rb")

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How can this be done?
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Thanks in advance.
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[John Machin]

Re: File operations

On Aug 22, 9:33 am, Gary Herron <gher...@island training.comwro te:

aditya shukla wrote:

Hello guys

>

I am trying to search a file say xyz.txt

>

after searching i get the location of the file in

>

search_file (containing abspath) ,eg search_file="c: \\abc\\xyz.txt"

>

now how should i open this file

>

i can use file=open("c:\\ abc\\xyz.txt"," rb") but i have to use search_
file

>
file=open(searc h_file,"rb")

and don't use the name of the built-in file function as one of your
own names

and if it's really a text file, don't use "rb", use "r"

[Fredrik Lundh]

Re: File operations

John Machin wrote:

and don't use the name of the built-in file function as one of your
own names

"file" is a type, not a function, and has been removed in 3.0.

given that "file" is hardly ever used in properly written Python 2 code
(if you need to check for file-like behaviour in Python 2, check for the
relevant attributes), assigning to "file" is a lot less problematic than
assigning to "len" or "str" or "open" etc.

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