On Friday 2011 July 15 15:58, Richard D. Moores wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 14:47, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote:
> > Richard D. Moores, 15.07.2011 23:21:
> >> What do I do to test.txt to make it "an object with a write(string)
> >> method"?
> >
> > Oh, there are countless ways to do that, e.g.
> >
> > class Writable(object):
> > def __init__(self, something):
> > print("Found a %s" % something))
> > def write(self, s):
> > print(s)
> >
> > print("Hello, world!", file=Writable("C:\\test\\test.txt"))
> >
> > However, I'm fairly sure what you want is this:
> >
> > with open("C:\\test\\test.txt", "w") as file_object:
> > print("Hello, world!", file=file_object)
>
> Yes, went with
>
> with open("C:\\test\\test.txt", "a+") as file_object:
> print("Hello, world!", file=file_object)
>
> > Look up "open()" (open a file) and the "with statement" (used here
> > basically as a safe way to make sure the file is closed after writing).
> >
> > Also note that "\t" refers to a TAB character in Python, you used this
> > twice in your file path string.
I believe on Windows, you can almost always use a forward slash in a path:
C:/somewhere/somewhereelse/
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