problem opening a file on 2.2a1
Skip Montanaro
skip at pobox.com
Mon Aug 20 14:47:09 EDT 2001
Rajarshi> data = open('data.out','w')
Rajarshi> works fine. But when I try it froma script I get the error:
Rajarshi> Traceback (most recent call last):
Rajarshi> File "./p.py", line 12, in ?
Rajarshi> data = open('data.out','w')
Rajarshi> TypeError: an integer is required
I'd insert a print statement right before the call to open:
print open
to see if it's really the open function you think it is. Are you perhaps
executing something like
from os import *
? The posix module defines an open function with a different signature than
the builtin open function. In particular, the second argument is a flags
argument that expects an integer.
Very few modules in the standard library (or other places) are designed to
be executed as "from module import *". The types, Tkinter, and dumbdbm
modules comes to mind. The os module is definitely not designed to imported
that way.
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