Re: [Tutor] Open file error

2006-01-19 Thread Kent Johnson
andy senoaji wrote: > Thanks Danny & Alan, > > your print repr(os.listdir("C:/")) has embarrased myself :(. I found out > the file name is Test.txt.txt in my c: drive. I guess I learn something > here. If you tell Windows not to hide file extensions you won't make that mistake again. On my com

Re: [Tutor] Open file error

2006-01-18 Thread andy senoaji
Thanks Danny & Alan,your print repr(os.listdir("C:/")) has embarrased myself :(. I found out the file name is Test.txt.txt in my c: drive. I guess I learn something here.Again ThanksAndy On 1/17/06, Danny Yoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, andy senoaji wrote:> I'm back to my home m

Re: [Tutor] Open file error

2006-01-17 Thread Danny Yoo
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, andy senoaji wrote: > I'm back to my home machine, and ran again the open method, just to test > my sanity Here are the results: [cut] Hi Andy, Unfortunately, there are a few things that might be happening here. You mentioned earlier that: > I know for sure that the fil

Re: [Tutor] Open file error

2006-01-17 Thread Alan Gauld
>>> f=open(r'c:\Test.txt','r') Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ? IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'c:\\Test.txt' Its pretty determined that Test.txt doesn't exist. What happens if you do: import os os.listdir('C:\\') In other words does Python see the file

Re: [Tutor] Open file error

2006-01-17 Thread andy senoaji
I'm back to my home machine, and ran again the open method, just to test my sanity Here are the results:>>> f=open(r'c:\Test.txt','r')Traceback (most recent call last):  File "", line 1, in ? IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'c:\\Test.txt'>>> f=open(r'c:\\Test.txt','r')Traceback (most

Re: [Tutor] Open file error

2006-01-17 Thread bob
At 09:23 AM 1/17/2006, Paul Kraus wrote: >On Tuesday 17 January 2006 12:11 pm, andy senoaji wrote: > > I am starting to pull my hair here. There were some postings in the past, > > similar to my problem, but the response was not clear enough. Sorry if you > > thingk I am reposting this. > > > > I a

Re: [Tutor] Open file error

2006-01-17 Thread Python
(replying back to the list also) On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 10:03 -0800, andy senoaji wrote: > Sorry for the inconsistent error message. I think I may pasted > incorretcly. I am now in a different machine, and have tested Paul's > suggestion, and it worked. But would the 'r' tackles the escape > sequenc

Re: [Tutor] Open file error

2006-01-17 Thread Alan Gauld
> I am trying to run (on an XP box) a simple open file using this: > f = open(r'C:\Test.txt', 'r') > IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\Test.txt' > I know for sure that the file is there > Furthermore, how does Python assumes the search path? There is no search, you have specifi

Re: [Tutor] Open file error

2006-01-17 Thread Alan Gauld
>> I am trying to run (on an XP box) a simple open file using this: >> f = open(r'C:\Test.txt', 'r')Newbie here but shouldn't it be. > > Newbie Here > > f = open( r'C:\\Test.txt','r') > > I think you are escaping the T with \T. The r in front of the string should prevent that problem. If the r

Re: [Tutor] Open file error

2006-01-17 Thread Python
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 09:11 -0800, andy senoaji wrote: > I am starting to pull my hair here. There were some postings in the > past, similar to my problem, but the response was not clear enough. > Sorry if you thingk I am reposting this. > > I am trying to run (on an XP box) a simple open file usi

Re: [Tutor] Open file error

2006-01-17 Thread Terry Carroll
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Paul Kraus wrote: > On Tuesday 17 January 2006 12:11 pm, andy senoaji wrote: > > I am starting to pull my hair here. There were some postings in the past, > > similar to my problem, but the response was not clear enough. Sorry if you > > thingk I am reposting this. > > > > I a

Re: [Tutor] Open file error

2006-01-17 Thread Paul Kraus
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 12:11 pm, andy senoaji wrote: > I am starting to pull my hair here. There were some postings in the past, > similar to my problem, but the response was not clear enough. Sorry if you > thingk I am reposting this. > > I am trying to run (on an XP box) a simple open file us

[Tutor] Open file error

2006-01-17 Thread andy senoaji
I am starting to pull my hair here. There were some postings in the past, similar to my problem, but the response was not clear enough. Sorry if you thingk I am reposting this.I am trying to run (on an XP box) a simple open file using this: f = open(r'C:\Test.txt', 'r') but it keeps give me naggi