No such file or directory: 'c:\\windows\\temp\\test'

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 7:13 PM, contro opinion <contropinion at gmail.com> wrote:
> in my computer
> C:\Python27>python
> Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 12 2011, 15:08:59) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on
> win
> 32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> 1.
>>>> f=open(r'c:\windows\temp\test','r')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'c:\\windows\\temp\\test'
>
> would you mind telling me what's wrong ?

When you open a file with 'r' (to read from it), it has to exist. Try
opening it with 'w' first; that should create the file and let you
write() contents to it. Then close it, and try opening it with 'r'. It
should then work.

ChrisA