Re: A silly question on file opening

2010-02-12 Thread joy99
On Feb 11, 1:57 am, Anthony Tolle wrote: > On Feb 10, 3:42 pm,joy99 wrote: > > > Dear Group, > > [snip] > > I tried to change the location to D:\file and as I saw in Python Docs > > the file reading option is now "r+" so I changed the statement to > >    file_open=open("D:\file","r+") > > but it i

Re: A silly question on file opening

2010-02-10 Thread Nobody
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:23:08 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > The solution to this is to remember that Windows accepts forward slashes > as well as backslashes, and always use the forward slash. So try: > > open("D:/file") > > and see if that works. The solution is not to hard-code pathnames i

Re: A silly question on file opening

2010-02-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:42:17 -0800, joy99 wrote: > I tried to change the location to D:\file and as I saw in Python Docs > the file reading option is now "r+" so I changed the statement to >file_open=open("D:\file","r+") > but it is still giving error. You should copy and paste (do not re-ty

Re: A silly question on file opening

2010-02-10 Thread Anthony Tolle
On Feb 10, 3:42 pm, joy99 wrote: > Dear Group, > [snip] > I tried to change the location to D:\file and as I saw in Python Docs > the file reading option is now "r+" so I changed the statement to >    file_open=open("D:\file","r+") > but it is still giving error. Only use "r+" if you need to also

A silly question on file opening

2010-02-10 Thread joy99
Dear Group, I was using Python with IDLE as GUI for quite some time. My Operating System was Windows XP with Service Pack2. Recently I changed the Operating System to Windows XP with Service Pack3. I had to reinstall Python for which I downloaded "python-2.6.4.msi"and loaded it in my D drive. Her