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[Roger Upole]

The first line should have yielded an IOError (file not found).
The backslashes have to be doubled or they will be interpreted
as escapes.  The \t in \temp would become a tab.
However, if the filename is right and there is actually anything in
the file, the second line should retrieve it.
      Roger Upole

"Phoon, David" <DPhoon at acnielsen.com.au> wrote in message
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> hi
>
>
> I am trying out the tutorial to file reading and writing and when I run
> python in nt
> eg >>> f=open('c:\temp\myfile.txt','r')
> >>> f.read()
> yields a blank string...""
>
> how do i parse the arguments in open??
>
>
> thanks
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