On Sep 9, 3:18 pm, David C Ullrich <dullr...@sprynet.com> wrote: (snip) > These days I've actually got the syntax and spelling memorized - > I can type "close()" without needing to look it up!
+1 You are so right David! I think some people around here need to look up "code reuse". Here are a couple of simple templates for our friends to study... def read_file(fname, mode='rb'): '''open file and return contents''' try: f = open(fname, mode) s = f.read() return s except: return 0 finally: f.close() def write_file(fname, s, mode='wb'): '''open file, truncate, and write string''' try: f = open(fname, mode) f.write(s) return 1 except: return 0 finally: f.close() >>> s = read_file(fname) >>> if s: ... s += 'morecrap' >>> write_file(s) #-- Extra Credit --# Create an append_file() function that takes a <filename> and <string> as args and appends to the file returning 1 on success, and 0 on failure. #-- Double Extra Creidit --# Create a backup_file() function that takes <filename> as arg and creates a copy of the file with the extension ".bak"... >>> backup_file('C:\test.txt') -> 'C:\test.bak' -- def get_enlightened(): import webbrowser url = 'http://jjsenlightenments.blogspot.com/' webbrowser.open(url) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list