How do I save the contents of a text buffer

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I just included file opening code just to show how i read the file
into the text buffer - I have no issues with this as such. Problem is
only with the writing of the text buffer back to a file. When I try to
write the buffer to a file it gave the following,

<gtk.TextBuffer object (GtkTextBuffer) at 0xb7cff284>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./configbox.py", line 78, in ?
    TextViewExample()
  File "./configbox.py", line 53, in __init__
    outfile.write(textbuffer.get_text(0,1000,
include_hidden_chars=True))
TypeError: start should be a GtkTextIter

How can I use outfile.write() to wite the contents of the text buffer
correctly?

Thanks


On Feb 18, 1:38 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl... at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> En Sat, 17 Feb 2007 20:47:20 -0300, <goo... at orcon.net.nz> escribió:
>
> > I'm using Python with pygtk and have this problem - I have read the
> > contents of a file into the text buffer with this code,
>
> >         infile = open("mytextfile", "r")
> >         if infile:
> >             string = infile.read()
> >             infile.close()
> >             textbuffer.set_text(string)
>
> Note that "if infile" does nothing: either the open succeeds and you get a
> file object which is *always* True, or the open fails and raises an
> exception and the code below never executes.
>
> > As a test, I tried to write the buffer back to a file with this code
> > but did not work,
>
> "did not work" means...
>
> --
> Gabriel Genellina