Newbie pythoner, with bizzare problem

[Michael Hudson]

milenko at moonshine.co.uk (Jack) writes:

> Hey there, 
> 
> im pretty new to using python, and im just experimenting with file access, 
> a wrote a script that works fine, and then all of a sudden it started 
> throwing up this error:
> 
> inp = open("c:/autoexec.bat",'r')
> TypeError: illegal argument type for built-in operation
> 
> it was working fine before, and i dont see anything unusual in the syntax.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated,

5 gets you 7 that you have added a 

from os import *

to your script.

Don't do that.

Cheers,
M.

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