Re: A silly question on file opening

2010-02-12 Thread joy99
On Feb 11, 1:57 am, Anthony Tolle anthony.to...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 10, 3:42 pm,joy99subhakolkata1...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Group, [snip] I tried to change the location to D:\file and as I saw in Python Docs the file reading option is now r+ so I changed the statement to    

A silly question on file opening

2010-02-10 Thread joy99
Dear Group, I was using Python with IDLE as GUI for quite some time. My Operating System was Windows XP with Service Pack2. Recently I changed the Operating System to Windows XP with Service Pack3. I had to reinstall Python for which I downloaded python-2.6.4.msiand loaded it in my D drive.

Re: A silly question on file opening

2010-02-10 Thread Anthony Tolle
On Feb 10, 3:42 pm, joy99 subhakolkata1...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Group, [snip] I tried to change the location to D:\file and as I saw in Python Docs the file reading option is now r+ so I changed the statement to    file_open=open(D:\file,r+) but it is still giving error. Only use r+ if you

Re: A silly question on file opening

2010-02-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:42:17 -0800, joy99 wrote: I tried to change the location to D:\file and as I saw in Python Docs the file reading option is now r+ so I changed the statement to file_open=open(D:\file,r+) but it is still giving error. You should copy and paste (do not re-type!) the

Re: A silly question on file opening

2010-02-10 Thread Nobody
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:23:08 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: The solution to this is to remember that Windows accepts forward slashes as well as backslashes, and always use the forward slash. So try: open(D:/file) and see if that works. The solution is not to hard-code pathnames in your