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[Samantha]

Thanks Steve. Appreciate it!
S
"Steven Bethard" <steven.bethard at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:67-dndUDN9NiIoPfRVn-3A at comcast.com...
> Samantha wrote:
>> input = open(r'C:\Documents and 
>> Settings\Owner\Desktop\somefile.html','r')
>> L = input.readlines()
>> input.close
>>
>> output = open(r'C:\Documents and 
>> Settings\Owner\Desktop\somefile_test.html','w')
>> for t in range(len(L)):
>>  output.writelines(L[t])
>> output.close
>
> I think you want to do [1]:
>
> input = open(r'somefile.html', 'r')
> lst = input.readlines()
> input.close() # note the () -- this is a method call
>
> output = open(r'somefile_test.html', 'w')
> output.writelines(lst) # not in a for-loop
> output.close() # note the () -- this is a method call
>
> If you really want to use a for-loop, the code should look like:
>
> for line in L:
>     output.write(line)
>
> If you call writelines when you only want to write one line, you're going 
> to get odd behavior -- Python's going to interpret each character in your 
> line as a "line" itself.
>
>> Also is there a way to test for EOF in Python?
>
> file.read() or file.readline() will return '' if you have reached the end 
> of the file.
>
> STeVe
>
> [1] In fact, what you really probably want to do is to take advantage of 
> the fact that a file is an iterator.  You can write:
>
> input = open(r'somefile.html', 'r')
> output = open(r'somefile_test.html', 'w')
> output.writelines(input)
>
> And the lines of somefile.html will be written to somefile_test.html. You 
> might also look at the shutil module.