Question about files?

[corvettecraz92 at gmail.com]

On May 31, 3:25 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr... at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 31 May 2008 11:44:14 -0700 (PDT), corvettecra... at gmail.com
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>
> > I want to create a program where a user can type what ever they want
> > to, have it saved to a file, and the be able to re-open it and read
> > it. How would I do this? Thanks!
>
> import os
> os.system("edit")     # may be Windows specific
>
>         Start with:http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
> (or, to expand on it... Exactly what part of the task are you having
> problems with? Opening files for read/write/update? Designing a command
> set for an editor? Designing a GUI for a text editor; what toolkit, does
> it have a generic text edit widget already? Do you really need to write
> another text editor when there are so many available that come with most
> operating systems (Windows: edit, notepad, maybe even wordpad;
> UNIX/Linux type systems: vi, vim, gvim, emacs) or can be downloaded
> (SciTE) )
>
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No, what I mean is for the user to input text directly into the python
program, then the program would save it to a file and display it after
it is created.