[Tutor] Windows - Linux based open() file handle mode

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2007, Srinivas Iyyer wrote:
>Dear group, 
>
>I want to parse an file generated for windows.
>My code works beautifully when I try to parse the same
>file generated in Linux. 
>
>I uses the following options with no success:
>
>blast_out = open('C:\human\prb_blast.out','r')
>
>blast_out = open('C:\human\prb_blast.out','rU')
>
>blast_out = open('C:\human\prb_blast.out','U')
>
>Are there any other ways to solve this problem. 

Try blast_out = open('C:/human/prb_blast.out', 'U') instead of
the $DEITY/Awful DOSish backwacks.

If you're really enamoured of backslashes, add an r before the
single quotes to get what you want.

blast_out = open(r'C:\human\prb_blast.out','U')

Bill
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