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[Alan Gauld]

"Lawrence Barrott" <lawrence.barrott at btinternet.com> wrote

> using the built in function "open" how do you specify non local
> files such as the C: drive without copying the program there

Just provide the full path to the file.

f = open(r"C:\TEMP\somefile.txt")

Note the use of raw to avoid problems with the DOS backslash 
character.
Another option is to use forward slashes which python accepts too:

f = open("C:/TEMP/somefile.txt")


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