python 2.5 - f=open('a_file.txt','w') gives [Errno 2]

[Diez B. Roggisch]

dirkheld wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I upgraded my system from tiger to leopard. With leopard came a new
> version of python 2.5
> 
> Now I trying to run some python code that previously worked on tiger
> (which included an older version of python).
> 
> This is the error I'm receiving :
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "test.py", line 18, in print_total
>     f=open('a_file.txt','w')
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'a_file.txt'
> 
> 
> Is this a bug in python? This code worked on my old system

The obvious question is: do you have 'a_file.txt' on your new system? There
are many happy python programmers on leopard, and this is one heck of a
basic functionality - I really doubt it's broken in such obvious way (if
any at all).

Diez