Python question, if I may

[joelmon]

Hey, I was just wondering, while I futz with python on my pc if there is a command to insert a file and if python offers features to create an app with buttons to open other files with this app

just curious, I am trying to learn more about python as I get started to see what it's capable of, that's all

thanks
(I promise I will search google/python.org lol)

[TheLinuxDuck]

Originally posted by joelmon:
<STRONG>to insert a file</STRONG>

What do you mean by this? Insert a file where?

[gb] and if python offers features to create an app with buttons to open other files with this app[/QB]

Do you mean like a GUI text editor, or what? Python has widgets to go GUI stuff, for example, Tk.. I've never used any of them, though.

[George Kilroy]

Originally posted by joelmon:
<STRONG>...insert a file...?</STRONG>

File IO? (http://www.honors.montana.edu/~jjc/easytut/easytut/node17.html)

[Aragorn]

Umm like everyone else I am not quite sure what you mean by insert a file, so I am going to assume you mean to access one and handle input/output of file. So a quick rundown of the BUILT IN function. I make that uppercase as there is a library that comes with python that allows you to access files in a different way, but I won't go into that here.

#To open a file, your except can be for #specific exceptions need be, but I just
#use a catch all except

try:
file = open("readme.txt", 'r')
except:
print "Error"

#then to read and write

try:
storage = file.read()
except:
print "Error reading file"

try:
file.write("I am writing to readme.txt")
except:
print "Error writing to file"

Alrighty if that isn't what you wanted I just wasted my time! ;) There is also the command to read from file line by line which is readline() so it would be file.readline()

Now the GUI...there are a few, TK being the most popular, my preference is wxPython which can be found at http://www.wxpython.org.

Aragorn