Simple File I/O Question

[Grant Edwards]

In article <396DF13A.97CC3F5E at bioeng.ucsd.edu>, Curtis Jensen wrote:
>I know this should be simple, but....  I have a variable that holds an
>int.  I want to write it to a file.  The following code:
>
>var = 5
>f = open('foo','w')
>f.write(var)
>
>gives this error:
>TypeError: read-only buffer, int

the write method only accepts strings as parameters, so you've
got to convert whatever you want to write to a string before
passing it to write()

try this:

  f.write(str(var))
    or
  f.write("The value of 'var' is %d\n" % var)

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