Oct 18, 2016 · Currently I am trying to open a text file called "temperature.txt" i have saved on my desktop using file handler, however for some reason i cannot get it to work. Could anyone tell …

Oct 22, 2013 · Moving the open outside the function may make it more flexible (it can now be passed arbitrary file-like objects opened in different ways), but if the function is supposed to …

Dec 29, 2011 · You don't really need the home/documents part as long as the python file and text file are saved in the same folder, you only need to open the textfile using the Open() function …

Python allows putting multiple open() statements in a single with. You comma-separate them. Your code would then be: def filter(txt, oldfile, newfile): '''\ Read a list of names from a file line …

Dec 16, 2014 · The open() built-in Python method uses normally two arguments: the file path and the mode.You have three principal modes (the most used): r, w and a.

Jul 19, 2012 · In any case, the GC will close the file handle when it collects the file object, therefore as long as you don't have extra references to the file object and you don't disable GC …

Aug 24, 2011 · Several disadvantages. 1) As per @orip, use forward slashes for paths, even on windows. Your string won't work.

Rather than mess with .encode and .decode, specify the encoding when opening the file.The io module, added in Python 2.6, provides an io.open function, which allows specifying the file's …

If your text file is similar to the following (note that each column is separated from one another by a single space character ' '): 0 1.5 first 100 1 .5 thirteenth 20 2 3.0 last 3000 then it is a space …

import re input = file('C:\full_path\Stud.txt', 'r') #when you try and write to a file with write permissions, it clears the file and writes only #what you tell it to the file. So we have to save …