Writing to a file

[Littlefield, Tyler]

 >    with open(test_absname, 'w') as test:
what's the difference in that and test = ...? I can see why you 
mentioned the os.path for cross-platform, but I don't understand why 
someone would use with over =.
On 3/25/2011 7:11 PM, eryksun () wrote:
> On Friday, March 25, 2011 11:07:19 AM UTC-4, jyou... at kc.rr.com wrote:
>>>>> f = open('~/Desktop/test.txt', 'w')
>>>>> f.write('testing 1... 2... 3...')
>>>>> f.close()
> Consider using "with" to automatically close the file and os.path for cross-platform compatibility:
>
>      import os.path
>      user_home = os.path.expanduser('~')
>      test_absname = os.path.join(user_home, 'Desktop', 'test.txt')
>
>      with open(test_absname, 'w') as test:
>          test.write('testing 1... 2... 3...')
>


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Thanks,
Ty