Reading text file with wierd file extension?

[Mike Driscoll]

On Feb 2, 1:20 pm, Lionel <lionel.ke... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 2, 10:41 am, Mike Driscoll <kyoso... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Feb 2, 12:36 pm, Lionel <lionel.ke... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Hi Folks, Python newbie here.
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> > > I'm trying to open (for reading) a text file with the following
> > > filenaming convension:
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> > > "MyTextFile.slc.rsc"
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> > > My code is as follows:
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> > > Filepath = "C:\\MyTextFile.slc.rsc"
> > > FileH = open(Filepath)
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> > > The above throws an IOError exception. On a hunch I changed the
> > > filename (only the filename) and tried again:
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> > > Filepath = "C:\\MyTextFile.txt"
> > > FileH = open(Filepath)
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> > > The above works well. I am able to open the file and read it's
> > > contents. I assume to read a file in text file "mode" the parameter is
> > > scanned for a ".txt" extension, otherwise the Python runtime doesn't
> > > know what version of "open(...)" to invoke. How do I pass the original
> > > filename (MyTextFile.slc.rsc) and get Python to open it as a text
> > > file? Thanks in advance everyone!
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> > The extension shouldn't matter. I tried creating a file with the same
> > extension as yours and Python 2.5.2 opened it and read it no problem.
> > I tried it in IDLE and with Wing on Windows XP. What are you using?
> > What's the complete traceback?
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> > Mike- Hide quoted text -
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> > - Show quoted text -
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> Hi Mike,
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> maybe it's not a "true" text file? Opening it in Microsoft Notepad
> gives an unformatted view of the file (text with no line wrapping,
> just the end-of-line square box character followed by more text, end-
> of-line character, etc). Wordpad opens it properly i.e. respects the
> end-of-line wrapping. I'm unsure of how these files are being
> generated, I was just given them and told they wanted to be able to
> read them.
>
> How do I collect the traceback to post it?

The traceback should look something like this fake one:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module>
    raise IOError
IOError

Just copy and paste it in your next message. The other guys are
probably right in that it is a line ending issue, but as they and I
have said, Python shouldn't care (and doesn't on my machine).

Mike