Dear Sybrel, I am delighted to know that you have been enlighted through my question. I am aware of my stupidity and I would say of my ignorance.If all Python users were not ignorant I suppose the Python group would be superfluous. I would suggest that if if you think that a question is supid please do not answer it.In French we say: "There is no stupid question but answers can be stupid". For the citation of Zappa I am convinced that when Zappa is speaking of world stupidity he is thinking to stupidity and wickedness of mankind and not to ignorance. Anyway the open command with a file having the extension ods must be used with a slash. But with a double backslash it is functionning too. In every documentation I posess on Python it is mentioned that an absolute path in Windows starts with a backslash.Python accepts platform-specific syntax ( See Python by C. Fehilly , p 306, Python in a nutshell by Martelli, etc,etc) Anyway thank you for your answer.
jean-Jeanot Sybren Stuvel a écrit : > jean-jeanot enlightened us with: > > I can access to a file with the command: > > file_obj = open ( " D:\My documents\Textfile.txt",'r') > > Which is the wrong way. Use forward slashes, escape your backslashes, > or use raw strings. > > Sybren > -- > The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a > capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the > safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? > Frank Zappa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
