opening a file opens it in Notepad

[Anton Muhin]

Lance wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm running PythonWin build 148 on Windows XP.
> 
> The following results in the file being opened in Notepad! This confuses me
> greatly. I simply want the file handle. My next line is to read the file
> into a string, using f1.read()
> Any suggestions will be appreciated.
> 
> Also, I have a number of files in srcfiles. I imagine I must issue
> f1.close() each time in the loop, yes?
> 
> for file in srcfiles:
>         f1 = open(file,"r")
>         ... do stuff...
> 
> Thanks,
> Lance
> 
> 

Copy-paste of your code revealed no problem, pelase send the full 
script. BTW, using file as a variable is really, really bad --- file is 
a built-in function. Your code would be better written like this:

for fileName in srcfiles:
     f = file(fileName, "r") # file is prefered to open now

HTH,
Anton