[Tutor] write to a file

[Rick Pasotto]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 05:34:20PM -0400, Gus Tabares wrote:
> Hello,
> 	
> 	I'm trying write something to a file but I keep on getting this error:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "test.py", line 9, in ?
>     os.open("C:\blah.txt", 'w')
> TypeError: an integer is required
> 
> 	I don't see what an integer has to do with anything? Thanks in advance...

Forget the 'os.' just use open("C:blah.txt",'w').

os.open() returns a file *descriptor* and is different from the builtin
open() which returns a file *object* and takes different parameters.

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