Can't Write File

Rami Chowdhury rami.chowdhury at gmail.com
Tue Nov 10 16:00:13 EST 2009


On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:57:30 -0800, Victor Subervi  
<victorsubervi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Rami Chowdhury  
> <rami.chowdhury at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:38:36 -0800, Victor Subervi <
>> victorsubervi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi;
>>> I've determined the problem in a script is I can't open a file to write
>>> it:
>>> script = open(getpic, "w")  # where getpic is already defined
>>> Here are the permissions:
>>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  4649 Nov 10 12:31 start.py
>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>> TIA,
>>> Victor
>>>
>>
>> ...and where's the file denoted by getpic?
>>
>
> getpic is incremented. For example, it can equal "getpic1.py".

My apologies -- I wasn't clear. Can you open the file denoted by getpic  
(e.g. "getpic1.py") for writing from the command line?

It would also be helpful if you let us know details of the exception being  
raised.


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Rami Chowdhury
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