This would seriously help troubleshooting for me. I updated a data file and now my main program is choking on it. When the program encounters an error, it dumps a bit of information to the screen for a few steps before the error but that is not enough.
Footnote: English sprakers on a roller coaster: "Weeee" Spanish speakers on a rollercoaster: " Nosostros" -----Original Message----- From: Python-list <python-list-bounces+gronicus=sga.ni...@python.org> On Behalf Of shrimp_banana Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2020 9:47 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: File Name issue On 10/17/20 4:12 PM, Steve wrote: > The line: > with open("HOURLYLOG.txt", 'r') as infile: > works but, when I rename the file, the line: > with open("HOURLY-LOG.txt", 'r') as infile: > does not. The complaint is: Cannot Assign to operator > > However, I have: > BPM_O2s=open("BPM-O2-Readings.txt","a") > And it works. > > At first, I thought the issue was due to having the - in the filename. > > Is there a fix or explanation for this? > Steve I am unsure if this will help but you could try putting an r in front of the quotes to make it take raw data only. ie. with open(r"HOURLY-LOG.txt", 'r') as infile -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list