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[Stan Cook]

I'm writing a script to list all of my music files' id3 tags
to a comma delimited file. The only part I'm missing seems
like it should be the simplest. I haven't used Python for
the last couple of years. My question is this:

When I use os.open(<file_variable>,"w"), I get an error
message, TypeError: an integer is required. Has
something changed? Did I miss something???

Thanks,

-------------------> S Cook

 

[Fredrik Lundh]

I'm writing a script to list all of my music files' id3 tags
to a comma delimited file. The only part I'm missing seems
like it should be the simplest. I haven't used Python for
the last couple of years. My question is this:

When I use os.open(<file_variable>,"w"), I get an error
message, TypeError: an integer is required. Has
something changed? Did I miss something???

the function is called "open", not "os.open".

there's an open function in the os module, but that's doing something
slightly different (see the library reference documentation for details
if you're curious).

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[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Stan Cook a écrit :

I'm writing a script to list all of my music files' id3 tags to a comma
delimited file. The only part I'm missing seems like it should be the
simplest. I haven't used Python for the last couple of years. My
question is this:

When I use os.open(<file_variable>,"w"), I get an error message,
TypeError: an integer is required. Has something changed? Did I miss
something???

You want open() (the builtins one), not os.open().

Also, if you want to deal with csv files, you may want to check the csv
module (if you don't use it already).

 

[per9000]

Hi,

This is what I often do:

somekindofoutput = ''
somekindofoutput += somefunk(somearg) + '\n'

# w is for writing
myfile = open('theoutfile',w)
myfile.write(somekindofoutput)
myfile.close()

also see
http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/tut/node9.html
or some other documentation

/P9k

 

[Max Erickson]

# w is for writing
myfile = open('theoutfile',w)

That won't work, the second argument to open needs to be a string:

myfile = open('theoutfile', 'w')


max

 

[Fredrik Lundh]

That won't work, the second argument to open needs to be a string:

w = 'w'

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[Stan Cook]

the function is called "open", not "os.open".

there's an open function in the os module, but that's doing something
slightly different (see the library reference documentation for details
if you're curious).

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Thanks, I found it.