thats what i had. and when i tried to run it it give me a syntax error.
>>> myfile = open("/testtherest.rtf", "r")
>>> lines = myfile.readlines()
>>> for line in lines:
print line
myfile.close()
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Daniel Kersten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Do you still get a syntax error? Feel free to paste it here and
> someone will help, if you cannot figure it out.
>
> Dan.
>
> 2008/6/28 Graeme Denny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > 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
> >> > >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Daniel Kersten.
> Leveraging dynamic paradigms since the synergies of 1985.
>
> >
>
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