> So far, I've found that unlike with the C++ version of fopen(), the > Python 'open()' call does not create the file for you when opened > using the mode 'w'. I get an exception saying that the file doesn't > exist.
Works for me... :~$ mkdir foo :~$ cd foo :foo$ ls :foo$ python Python 2.4.4 (#2, Apr 5 2007, 20:11:18) [GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> f = open('bar', 'w') >>> f.write('test\n') >>> f.close() >>> :foo$ ls bar :foo$ cat bar test :foo$ You're going to have to show us the actual code you used and the actual error message you are getting. > Also, you might notice that my "self.m_file.read()" function is wrong, > according to the python docs at least. read() takes the number of > bytes to read, however I was not able to find a C++ equivalent of > "sizeof()" in Python. If I wanted to read in a 1 byte, 2 byte, or 4 > byte value from data into python I have no idea how I would do this. Are you trying to read in unicode? Generally in python, you do not concern yourself with how much space (how many bytes) a particular value takes up. You may want to look at how the pickle module works. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list