Help with reading file in windows.

[Anand Pillai]

I dont know how those 'concat's came there! Replace
them with 'open' and read. Seems like a problem
with posting via dbforums. I remember I typed 'open'
there...

Anand

anandpillai <member29923 at dbforums.com> wrote in message news:<2904744.1053498481 at dbforums.com>...
> The first solution had a problem in the 2nd line
> 
>   => reading_file = concat(asking).r
> 
>   This is wrong syntax since you need to say
>    'open(asking, 'r') . The mode for opening is given
>    as second argument to concat() in quotes.
> 
>   The second solution also had a problem in the 2nd line
> 
>    => reading_file = file(asking).read()
> 
>     You are trying to call read() on something which is
>      not a 'file' object. There is no method  'file()' in python
>      which takes a string as argument to open a file.
> 
>   To read from a file you need to first create a file object.
>   You do it by calling the 'open()' method on a file name string and
>   passing a mode as second argument.  The mode is 'r' (read text mode)
>   by default. So your basic file opening would be like,
> 
>   f = concat(asking)
>   data = f.read()
> 
>   For writing you pass 'w', for reading binary 'rb', read & write, 'rw'
>   , writing binary 'wb' etc.  The try ... except
>   clauses are there to catch any possible exceptions like file
>   not found, unable to open etc.
> 
>   You can get a better understanding of this method by
>   looking up the documentation of the 'fopen' function in
>    ANSI C. This method signature is very similar to the
>   'fopen' C function. To do that try 'man fopen' on a unix
>    or linux box or an a windoze machine with MKS tools
>    installed.
> 
> Anand Pillai