On 25/10/2012 19:26, Joel Goldstick wrote:
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 2:15 PM, myles broomes
<mylesbroo...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
I'm trying to code a program that retrieves data from a seperate file but
according to my program, the seperate file is empty when I know it clearly
isn't. It's a txt file and here are its contents:
120
74
57
44
12
I thought that maybe the problem was the code I had written but even when I
try and read from the file in an interactive session in the Python Shell, it
does the same thing. I open it in read mode and assign to a variable like
so:
scoresFile=open('highScores.txt','r')
But whenever I try to say read from it:
scoresFile.read()
It comes up with a blank string:
''
Can anyone help me?
Myles Broomes
check your spelling. check that you are in the same directory when
your program runs.
If you've misspelt the filename or you're in the wrong directory surely
you'll get something like this depending on your OS.
c:\Users\Mark>MyPython\mytest.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Mark\MyPython\mytest.py", line 2, in <module>
scoresFile=open('highScores.txt','r')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'highScores.txt'
--
Cheers.
Mark Lawrence.
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