"W. eWatson" <wolftra...@invalid.com> wrote: >Maybe someone could verify my result? > >open file >read file line >print line >close file > >data 1234 > >Execute it in a folder > >Create another folder and copy the program to it. >put in a new data file as > >data 4567 > >Execute the copied program >Does it give >data1234?
No, of course not. C:\tmp\x>echo data 1234>data.txt C:\tmp\x>type check.py f = open('data.txt','r') print f.read() f.close() C:\tmp\x>check.py data 1234 C:\tmp\x>cd ..\y C:\tmp\y>echo data 4567>data.txt C:\tmp\y>copy ..\x\check.py . 1 file(s) copied. C:\tmp\y>check.py data 4567 C:\tmp\y> Would you like to post your exact code? -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list