Craig schrieb: > Fredrik Lundh wrote: > >> Craig wrote: >> >>> I'm only new to Python so please bear with me. I using ElementTree to >>> generate an XML file that will reference a DTD and an XSL file. The >>> header information I want at the start of the file is as follows: >>> >>> <?xml version="1.0"?> >>> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="test.xsl"?> >>> <!DOCTYPE BobActivityLog SYSTEM "test.dtd"> >>> >>> How do you add this header information to the tree >> to the file, you mean? use print. >> >> </F> > > Thanks for the quick response. Here is the code I am using to manually > write to the file is: > > outFile = open("record.xml", 'w') > outFile.write = ("<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n") > outFile.write = ("<?xml-stylesheet type=\"text/xsl\" > href=\"test.xsl\"?>\n") > outFile.write = ("<!DOCTYPE BobActivityLog SYSTEM \"test.dtd\">\n") > outFile.close() > > When I run the code I get the following error message: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "bob-xml.py", line 189, in <module> > main() > File "bob-xml.py", line 173, in main > outFile.write = ("<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n") > AttributeError: 'file' object attribute 'write' is read-only > > What am I doing wrong here? If anyone could help that would be > appreciated. Thanks again.
write is a method, not a property. outFile.write("whatever") is the way to go... Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list