On 31 Mag, 21:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On May 31, 3:25 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Sat, 31 May 2008 11:44:14 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > > > I want to create a program where a user can type what ever they want > > > to, have it saved to a file, and the be able to re-open it and read > > > it. How would I do this? Thanks! > > > import os > > os.system("edit") # may be Windows specific > > > Start with:http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > > (or, to expand on it... Exactly what part of the task are you having > > problems with? Opening files for read/write/update? Designing a command > > set for an editor? Designing a GUI for a text editor; what toolkit, does > > it have a generic text edit widget already? Do you really need to write > > another text editor when there are so many available that come with most > > operating systems (Windows: edit, notepad, maybe even wordpad; > > UNIX/Linux type systems: vi, vim, gvim, emacs) or can be downloaded > > (SciTE) ) > > > -- > > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber KD6MOG > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ > > (Bestiaria Support Staff: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > HTTP://www.bestiaria.com/ > > No, what I mean is for the user to input text directly into the python > program
You can use raw_input() to ask user to type something, then use open() to create a file and write in it. http://docs.python.org/lib/bltin-file-objects.html > then the program would save it to a file and display it after > it is created. What do you mean by "display"? Open that file with a text editor? Print the content of the file on screen? --- Giampaolo http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list