Re: [Tutor] Reading opened files

On Friday 17 June 2011 17:42:29 Walter Prins wrote: > On 17 June 2011 17:20, Lisi wrote: > > >>> file=open("/home/lisi/CHOOSING_SHOES.txt", "r") > > >>> file.close() > > >>> file=open("/home/lisi/CHOOSING_SHOES.txt", "r") > > >>> whole=file.read > > >>> print whole > > > > > > > > >>> print "%r"

Re: [Tutor] Reading opened files

Your problem is right here: >>> whole=file.read >>> print whole Your re-assigning the method "read()", which is a method of the object "file" to the variable "whole" So, when you print "whole" you can see that it is printing the location of the method in memory. If you were to print file.read yo

Re: [Tutor] Reading opened files

On 17 June 2011 17:20, Lisi wrote: > >>> file=open("/home/lisi/CHOOSING_SHOES.txt", "r") > >>> file.close() > >>> file=open("/home/lisi/CHOOSING_SHOES.txt", "r") > >>> whole=file.read > >>> print whole > > >>> print "%r" % whole > > >>> print "whole is %r" %whole > whole is > >>> print "whole