Getting a path from a file object

Question posted by: Andrew Fong (Guest) on July 4th, 2008 06:45 PM

Newbie question:

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

Example:

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>>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

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July 4th, 2008
08:15 PM
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Re: Getting a path from a file object

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

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

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

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

Nope. But:

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And if not, how would I define
it?

Not sure it's worth defining a function:

def some_function(f):
return f.name

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-- Andrew

Ken Starks

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July 5th, 2008
11:25 AM
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Re: Getting a path from a file object

Andrew Fong wrote:

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Originally Posted by

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

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Originally Posted by

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>>>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

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

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