Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.lang.python > #8000 > unrolled thread

opening a file

Back to article view | Back to comp.lang.python

Contents

  opening a file Tim Hanson <tjhanson@yahoo.com> - 2011-06-19 23:00 -0700
    Re: opening a file Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-06-20 11:01 +0100

#8000 — opening a file

Using linux and Python 2.6, learning how to work with files from a Windows 
oriented textbook:

This works:
infile=open('/foo/bar/prog/py_modules/this_is_a_test','r')

This doesn't:
infile=open('~/prog/py_modules/this_is_a_test','r')

Can't I work with files using Unix expressions?

[toc] | [next] | [standalone]

#8008

On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:00:38 -0700, Tim Hanson wrote:

> This works:
> infile=open('/foo/bar/prog/py_modules/this_is_a_test','r')
> 
> This doesn't:
> infile=open('~/prog/py_modules/this_is_a_test','r')
> 
> Can't I work with files using Unix expressions?

The argument is treated literally, just like C's fopen() etc. If you want
substitions, you have to perform them explicitly, e.g.:

infile=open(os.path.expanduser('~/prog/py_modules/this_is_a_test'),'r')

[toc] | [prev] | [standalone]

Back to top | Article view | comp.lang.python

csiph-web