Question about files?

[Giampaolo Rodola']

On 31 Mag, 21:28, corvettecra... at gmail.com wrote:
> On May 31, 3:25 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr... at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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> > On Sat, 31 May 2008 11:44:14 -0700 (PDT), corvettecra... at gmail.com
> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
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> > > 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!
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> > import os
> > os.system("edit")     # may be Windows specific
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> >         Start with:http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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> > (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

You can use raw_input() to ask user to type something, then use open()
to create a file and write in it.
http://docs.python.org/lib/bltin-file-objects.html

> then the program would save it to a file and display it after
> it is created.

What do you mean by "display"?
Open that file with a text editor? Print the content of the file on
screen?


--- Giampaolo
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