write()

[Rick Zantow]

"manuhack" <manuhack at gmail.com> wrote in news:1153981114.837884.232610
@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com:

> I copied the lines
> 
> f=open('/tmp/workfile', 'w')
> print f
> f.close()
> 
> from Python 2.4 Documentation 7.2.  But it said IOerror No such file or
> directory" '/tmp/workfile'
> 
> Is it something about the os?  I'm using Python 2.4 under WinXP.
> Thanks.  Without / I can open it.
> 

The problem is probably that you don't have a '/tmp' directory. WinXP 
doesn't create a directory structure to match a file path specification. If 
you first create the '/tmp' directory (which is a directory off the root of 
your hard drive on WinXP, so that if your current directory is on a D: 
drive it would be D:\tmp), then your code would work.

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rzed