File Name issue

shrimp_banana shrimp_banana at REMOVETHISprotonmail.com
Sat Oct 17 21:47:21 EDT 2020


On 10/17/20 4:12 PM, Steve wrote:
 > The line:
 > with open("HOURLYLOG.txt", 'r') as infile:
 > works but, when I rename the file, the line:
 > with open("HOURLY-LOG.txt", 'r') as infile:
 > does not.  The complaint is: Cannot Assign to operator
 >
 > However, I have:
 > BPM_O2s=open("BPM-O2-Readings.txt","a")
 > And it works.
 >
 > At first, I thought the issue was due to having the - in the filename.
 >
 > Is there a fix or explanation for this?
 > Steve

I am unsure if this will help but you could try putting an r in front of 
the quotes to make it take raw data only.
ie.

with open(r"HOURLY-LOG.txt", 'r') as infile


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