File open problem?

[William Dandreta]

I am getting an error I do not understand.

1st line in script (/mnt/floppy/setup.py) is:

myfile = open('/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit','r')

error is:

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/mnt/floppy/setup.py", line 5, in ?
    myfile = open('/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit','r')
TypeError: illegal argument type for built-in operation

What does it mean?

from Python 1.5.2 on Linux Mandrake 7.2.

A line like

myfile = open('test','r')

in the interpreter gives the same error.

The same line under Windows it OK.

Bill