On 2016-07-06 00:45, Seymore4Head wrote:
That suggests to me that it's an encoding problem (the traceback would've indicated that).On Tue, 05 Jul 2016 19:29:21 -0400, Seymore4Head <[email protected]> wrote:On Tue, 5 Jul 2016 19:15:23 -0400, Joel Goldstick <[email protected]> wrote:On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 7:03 PM, MRAB <[email protected]> wrote:On 2016-07-05 23:05, Seymore4Head wrote:import os f_in = open('win.txt', 'r') f_out = open('win_new.txt', 'w') for line in f_in.read().splitlines(): f_out.write(line + " *\n") f_in.close() f_out.close() os.rename('win.txt', 'win_old.txt') os.rename('win_new.txt', 'win.txt') I just tried to reuse this program that was posted several months ago. I am using a text flie that is about 200 lines long and have named it win.txt. The file it creates when I run the program is win_new.txt but it's empty.Although it creates a file called "win_new.txt", it then renames it to "win.txt", so "win_new.txt" shouldn't exist. Of course, if there's already a file called "win_old.txt", then the first rename will raise an exception, and you'll have "win_new.txt" and the original "win.txt". -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-listWhy don't you comment out the renames, and see what happens?I really don't care if the filename gets renamed or not. I commented out the renames, but I still get a new file called win_new.txt and it is empty. The original is unchanged.I just tried this on a 3 line text file and it works. I am looking through the text file and have found at least two suspicious characters. One is a German letter and the other is a characters that has been replaced by a square symbol.
Specify an encoding when you open the files:
f_in = open('win.txt', 'r', encoding='utf-8')
f_out = open('win_new.txt', 'w', encoding='utf-8')
assuming that 'win.txt' is indeed encoded in UTF-8. (It might be
something like ISO-8859-1 instead.)
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