"Lawrence Barrott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> using the built in function "open" how do you specify non local
> files such as the C: drive without copying the program there
Just provide the full path to the file.
f = open(r"C:\TEMP\somefile.txt")
Note the use of raw to avoid problems with the DOS backslash
character.
Another option is to use forward slashes which python accepts too:
f = open("C:/TEMP/somefile.txt")
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