Writeing new files

[eber kain]

andy_todd at spam.free.yahoo.com (Andy Todd) wrote in message news:<Xns910DA9411E997andytoddspamfreeyaho at 203.109.250.24>...
> Steve challenged, I had to respond ;-)
> 
> "Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote in
> <x0cj7.71700$54.3813230 at e420r-atl1.usenetserver.com>: 
> 
> >"eber kain" <eberkain at earthlink.net> wrote in message
> >news:b5f84cf8.0108291125.1fffe46b at posting.google.com...
> >> When i run this code
> >>
> >> name= Create('Name')
> >> file= open('%s.btv' % name, "w")
> >>
> >> i end up with a file name that has a set of ' ' around the name like
> >> so 
> >>
> >> 'Name'.btv
> >>
> >> How can i fix this?
>  
> >>>> name = Create('Name')
> >Traceback (innermost last):
> >  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
> >NameError: There is no variable named 'Create'
> >
> >I think we need a little more context before we can be of much help,
> >despite this newsgroup's famous psychic debugging abilities. That is,
> >unless someone out there wants to prove me wrong ...
> 
> My lack of pyschic ability lead me to;
> >>> filename1='''Name'''
> >>> print '%s.btv' % filename1
> Name.btv
> 
> So that obviously works ... hmmm
> Then I tried;
> >>> filename2="'Name'"
> >>> print '%s.btv' % filename2
> 'Name'.btv
> 
> Bingo! This is more than likely causing your problem. Note the combination 
> of double and single quotes. They are guaranteed to trip up the unwary.
> 
> Obviously I skipped
> >>> filename0='Name'
>  because I new that would give us;
> >>> print '%s.btv' % filename0
> Name.btv
> 
> The moral of the story? Try to avoid encoding quotation marks in you 
> character strings at all costs. If you do need to preserve them, be very, 
> very careful.
> 
> For what its worth my rule of thumb is;
> 
> Use ' for ordinary characters,
> Use " if you *must* include quotation marks within the string (then watch 
> out when evaluating these strings)
> 
> Oh, and test like buggery as well ;-)
> 
> If you want the total lowdown on string literals (for some reason I only 
> have the 2.0.1 reference but I don't believe it has changed), look in the 
> manual;
> 
> http://www.python.org/doc/2.0.1/ref/strings.html
> 
> >
> >About all I can tell you is that you are putting quotes in somewhere
> >they aren't required, but you'd probably wirked that out.
> >
> >Eber, please post the whole program, or if it's too long (say, > 100
> >lines) or a secret then write a shorter program to demonstrate the bug
> >and post that.
> 
> Here, here. Although, hopefully the miniscule examples above will lead you 
> to solve your problem.
> 
> >
> >regards
> > Steve
> >--
> >http://www.holdenweb.com/
> >
> 
> Regards,
> Andy

Ok, here is the top part of my code, its working up to 400 lines, so just the top.

This is being used in blender, a freeware 3d modeling tool.







import Blender
from Blender import NMesh
from Blender.Draw import *
from Blender.BGL import *

# General

name= Create('Name')
shortname= Create('Short Name')
type= Create(1)


def export():
	file= open('%s.btv' % name,"w")
	#	name and short name
	file.write("%s\n" % name)
	file.write("%s\n" % shortname)
	
	#	charcteristics
	file.write("%s " % type)
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