[Tutor] Create text file (original) (raw)

Lloyd Kvam pythonTutor at venix.com
Thu Jul 1 09:36:08 EDT 2004

Simply use the Python file object with a t appended to the mode: textfile = file('new_file.txt','wt')

This is a link to the tutorial. Note that open also returns file objects. file is a recent addition to the language.

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 09:17, Bernard Lebel wrote: > Hello, >> I searched througout the Python docs but can't find anything about that. >> Is there a way to create a text file in Python? > So far I'm using a FileSystemObject (wich is an ActiveX object, running > inside the Win32 module), in the form of >> fso.createtextfile( ) >> But I'd like to stay away from active objects to maximize Windows-Linux > compatibility. >> Any advince would be very welcomed. >> _________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

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