[Tutor] Re: Filtering text files

Garry Knight garryknight at gmx.net
Wed Apr 14 19:54:20 EDT 2004


In message <407DBB18.60803 at po-box.mcgill.ca>, Brian van den Broek wrote:

> Kooser, Ara S said unto the world upon 14/04/2004 17:28:
> 
>> def filterFile(lmps, newFile):
>>   f1 = open(lmps, "r")
>>   f2 = open(newFile, "w")
> 
> filterFile(firstfile.txt, secondfile.txt)

Since the open() call takes a string as the first parameter, filterFile
should be called with two string arguments:

filterFile("firstfile.txt", "secondfile.txt")

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