Error opening file ! Help, please

[Emile van Sebille]

"gimar" <ilen712 at libero.it> wrote in message
news:Xns91A9CA356801ilen712l at 193.70.192.103...
> Sometimes when I try to create an output file executing:
>
> f=open('\paul','w')
>
> I receive the following error message:
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> "TypeError: object of type 'list' is not callable".
>
>
> This has no sense for me. Can you explain me what's happening ?
>
>

Any chance you're assigning to open?

>>> open = [1,2,3]
>>> f=open('\paul','w')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#16>", line 1, in ?
    f=open('\paul','w')
TypeError: 'list' object is not callable
>>>



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