write()

[manuhack]

I copied the lines

f=open('/tmp/workfile', 'w')
print f
f.close()

from Python 2.4 Documentation 7.2. But it said IOerror No such file or
directory" '/tmp/workfile'

Is it something about the os? I'm using Python 2.4 under WinXP.
Thanks. Without / I can open it.

[miker2]

manuhack wrote:

I copied the lines

f=open('/tmp/workfile', 'w')
print f
f.close()

from Python 2.4 Documentation 7.2. But it said IOerror No such file or
directory" '/tmp/workfile'

Is it something about the os? I'm using Python 2.4 under WinXP.
Thanks. Without / I can open it.

f=open(r'c:\blah\blah').read()

[manuhack]

How about write mode? Changing r to w doesn't work...

mi****@optusnet.com.au wrote:

manuhack wrote:

I copied the lines

f=open('/tmp/workfile', 'w')
print f
f.close()

from Python 2.4 Documentation 7.2. But it said IOerror No such file or
directory" '/tmp/workfile'

Is it something about the os? I'm using Python 2.4 under WinXP.
Thanks. Without / I can open it.

f=open(r'c:\blah\blah').read()

[miker2]

manuhack wrote:

How about write mode? Changing r to w doesn't work...

mi****@optusnet.com.au wrote:

manuhack wrote:

I copied the lines
>
f=open('/tmp/workfile', 'w')
print f
f.close()
>
from Python 2.4 Documentation 7.2. But it said IOerror No such file or
directory" '/tmp/workfile'
>
Is it something about the os? I'm using Python 2.4 under WinXP.
Thanks. Without / I can open it.

f=open(r'c:\blah\blah').read()

what is it that you want to do??

in XP if i have or want to create a file in c:\ called test.txt i would
do this:

f = open(r'c:\test.txt', 'w')
f.write("rock the house party")
f.close()

[Rick Zantow]

"manuhack" <ma******@gmail.comwrote in news:1153981114.837884.232610
@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com:

I copied the lines

f=open('/tmp/workfile', 'w')
print f
f.close()

from Python 2.4 Documentation 7.2. But it said IOerror No such file or
directory" '/tmp/workfile'

Is it something about the os? I'm using Python 2.4 under WinXP.
Thanks. Without / I can open it.

The problem is probably that you don't have a '/tmp' directory. WinXP
doesn't create a directory structure to match a file path specification. If
you first create the '/tmp' directory (which is a directory off the root of
your hard drive on WinXP, so that if your current directory is on a D:
drive it would be D:\tmp), then your code would work.

--
rzed

[manuhack]

Then is there any way to create a directory under XP using Python?

Rick Zantow wrote:

"manuhack" <ma******@gmail.comwrote in news:1153981114.837884.232610
@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com:

I copied the lines

f=open('/tmp/workfile', 'w')
print f
f.close()

from Python 2.4 Documentation 7.2. But it said IOerror No such file or
directory" '/tmp/workfile'

Is it something about the os? I'm using Python 2.4 under WinXP.
Thanks. Without / I can open it.

The problem is probably that you don't have a '/tmp' directory. WinXP
doesn't create a directory structure to match a file path specification. If
you first create the '/tmp' directory (which is a directory off the root of
your hard drive on WinXP, so that if your current directory is on a D:
drive it would be D:\tmp), then your code would work.

--
rzed

[Dale Strickland-Clark]

manuhack wrote:

Then is there any way to create a directory under XP using Python?

import os
os.mkdir("C:\\myosisbroken")

--
Dale Strickland-Clark
Riverhall Systems www.riverhall.co.uk

[Andy Salnikov]

"manuhack" <ma******@gmail.comwrote in message
news:11**********************@p79g2000cwp.googlegr oups.com...

>I copied the lines

f=open('/tmp/workfile', 'w')
print f
f.close()

from Python 2.4 Documentation 7.2. But it said IOerror No such file or
directory" '/tmp/workfile'

Is it something about the os? I'm using Python 2.4 under WinXP.
Thanks. Without / I can open it.

In addition to what others said, if you need to open a temporary file,
it's better to use os.tmpfile() to get a file descriptor and not to
rely on magic file names like '/tmp/workfile'. So instead of open()
you should do:

import os

f = os.tmpfile()

This should work fine of both Windows and UNIX systems.

Andy.