Saving variable value to a file does not work!!!!

[Husam]

Alright John, now it works.
Thanks a lot.
Husam


John Roth wrote:

> "Gerhard Häring" <gh_pythonlist at gmx.de> wrote in message
> news:mailman.1001867134.25402.python-list at python.org...
> > On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 06:04:33PM +0200, Husam wrote:
> > > Hi friends,
> > > Im  a newbie and trying to save the value of variable 'counter' to a
> > > file, but it does not work.
> > > The code Im usig is:
> > >
> > >
> > > for line in lines:                # I'm reading from file: test2.txt.
> > > One of it's lines contain: ID 5.
> > >     string.split(line)
> > >     if line[0:2]=='ID':
> > >         counter=int(line[3])
> > >         output=open('test2.txt','a') # Hier Im opening the same file for
> > > append.
> > >         output.write(counter +1)            # This is the trouble making
> > > line!
> > > output.close()
> >
> > Btw. the string.split(line) doesn't do anything in your case, if you
> > want to store the output of the split function, you can use something
> > like "mylist = string.split(line)". But now the the real problem.
> >
> > > The error message I get when this code is run:
> > >
> > > Traceback (innermost last):
> > >   File "./script.py", line 23, in ?
> > >     output.write(counter+1)
> > > TypeError: read-only buffer, int
> >
> > You can't write any ints with the write function. But you can write
> > strings. Just do
> >
> >     output.write(str(counter + 1))
> >
> > I acknowledge this is a bit strange. And I also don't know the reason
> > why the conversion to string doesn't happen automatically, like with the
> > print statement.
>
> Print is for formatted output that is intended to be read by people
> (usually programmers.) Write is for output that is intended to be read back
> by a program.
>
> When you're writing to a file, you want to be able to read it back, right?
> If the system converted integers to strings, then you would need to put
> delimiters and all sorts of other stuff onto the file to be able to parse it
> when you read it. That's what Basic did, and anybody who works in
> that language can tell you exactly how ugly it gets.
>
> I'd much rather have the virtue of simplicity - what's on disk is exactly
> what I have in memory. Period. When I write a line, I want it read back
> the same way, and if that means that all I can write is strings, then so be
> it.
>
> >
> > Gerhard
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> > reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda
> x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))
> >