TypeError: Can't convert 'int' object to str implicitly

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 1:22 AM,  <tunacubes at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've checked out what fileinput.input() is doing here (ought to have
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>> done that earlier, sorry!) and I now understand this block of code
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>> more. You're replacing that word _in the file, on disk_, and then
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>> making the inverse replacement. This strikes me as dangerous; if
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>> anything happens to your process in the middle, the file will be
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>> damaged on disk. I would STRONGLY recommend rewriting this to use some
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>> other file - for instance, a temporary file. I haven't looked into the
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>> details, as I haven't actually done this lately in Python, but you
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>> should be able to use tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False) [1],
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>> write to it, make it executable, run it, and unlink it. That way,
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>> you're creating a temporary file to run, not running the original.
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>> This is semantically different from your code, but I think it'd be a
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>> lot safer.
>
> Thank you, Chris! I got it working and am going to take your advice on the tempfile idea. I actually ran into the problem you were referring to, and kept the .ahk files backed up elsewhere for when this situation arose. I appreciate the help!

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carries all the meaning I need.

ChrisA