<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: an integer is required

[Ulrich Eckhardt]

Dave Angel wrote:
> Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
>> open() doesn't take a string as second parameter, see 'help(open)'.
>> Instead, it takes one of the integers which are defined as symbols in the
>> os module, see 'dir(os)'.
>
> [...]The second parameter to the builtin function open() is a string[...]
> Now perhaps you're referring to open() in some other module, such as
> os.open().

True, mixed those up, as perhaps did the OP.

> an unqualified  open() can only refer to the one in builltin.

...unless you explicitly imported an 'open' from somewhere else.

Thanks for the correction.

Uli

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