write()

[Andy Salnikov]

"manuhack" <manuhack at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1153981114.837884.232610 at p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...
>I copied the lines
>
> f=open('/tmp/workfile', 'w')
> print f
> f.close()
>
> from Python 2.4 Documentation 7.2.  But it said IOerror No such file or
> directory" '/tmp/workfile'
>
> Is it something about the os?  I'm using Python 2.4 under WinXP.
> Thanks.  Without / I can open it.
>

  In addition to what others said, if you need to open a temporary file,
it's better to use os.tmpfile() to get a file descriptor and not to
rely on magic file names like '/tmp/workfile'. So instead of open()
you should do:

import os

f = os.tmpfile()

This should work fine of both Windows and UNIX systems.

  Andy.