Sorry for the errorneous quote-only response, gmail managed to send it without me typing a thing.
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Richard Dillon <dillo...@comcast.net> wrote: > infile = open(r'\OS\Users\richarddillon\Desktop\my_file','r') On the Mac, you don’t need to specify a drive there; the main drive is just /. Also, the path separator is a forward slash (/). This also lets you remove the r in front of the string, which is needed for backslashes unless you escape them. The corrected code is: infile = open('/Users/richarddillon/Desktop/my_file', 'r') -- Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <http://chriswarrick.com/> PGP: 5EAAEA16 stop html mail | always bottom-post | only UTF-8 makes sense _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor