Hi Graeme, The code should be the same as on a linux or windows machine
(except the path would look different on windows).
So the following snippet opens a text file,
reads all of the lines in it into a list
prints each line
and then closes the file, the "r" bit on the first line means open the
file for reading
myfile = open("./myfile.txt", "r")
lines = myfile.readlines()
for line in lines:
print line
myfile.close()
To write to a file
myfile = open"./mynewfile.txt","w")
myfile.write("hello world")
myfile.close()
The "w" bit means for writing this time,
and after running that you should have a new
file with the words "hello world" in it.
The .write method does not put a newline character at the end,
so if you dont put a \n in there calling it again will keep writing
on the same line. remember to call .close() at the end, or you
wont see the changes in the file when the program ends
All the best
Sean
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am extremely new to the Python language and have found many websites
> doing tutorials, but I am having trouble just opening a simple file. I
> am working the python on a Mac and all the tutorials I seem to get
> relate to PC.
>
> could somebody give me the layout that the line would take to open a
> file, just a text file, for the mac.
>
> apologies for the basicness of this request for everyone.
>
> Graeme
> >
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