thanks for the reply,
i was trying out with a few documents that i have and keep getting invalid
syntax. when i try and run the script.
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Sean O'Donnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi Graeme, The code should be the same as on a linux or windows machine
> (except the path would look different on windows).
>
>
> So the following snippet opens a text file,
> reads all of the lines in it into a list
> prints each line
> and then closes the file, the "r" bit on the first line means open the
> file for reading
>
> myfile = open("./myfile.txt", "r")
> lines = myfile.readlines()
> for line in lines:
> print line
> myfile.close()
>
> To write to a file
>
> myfile = open"./mynewfile.txt","w")
> myfile.write("hello world")
> myfile.close()
>
> The "w" bit means for writing this time,
> and after running that you should have a new
> file with the words "hello world" in it.
> The .write method does not put a newline character at the end,
> so if you dont put a \n in there calling it again will keep writing
> on the same line. remember to call .close() at the end, or you
> wont see the changes in the file when the program ends
>
> All the best
>
> Sean
>
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I am extremely new to the Python language and have found many websites
> > doing tutorials, but I am having trouble just opening a simple file. I
> > am working the python on a Mac and all the tutorials I seem to get
> > relate to PC.
> >
> > could somebody give me the layout that the line would take to open a
> > file, just a text file, for the mac.
> >
> > apologies for the basicness of this request for everyone.
> >
> > Graeme
> > >
>
>
> >
>
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