Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > John Aherne wrote: > > Unfortunately, when it comes to delete, I get a permission error. And > > yes, when I run the program and try to delete the file from the > > command prompt, I get a permission error. > > > > As far as I can tell, I assume the file is being kept open in the > > DictReader call. But I can't work out how I can close the file - > > .close comand also returns an error. I was assuming that on the return > > from the call the file would be closed - mistakenly I now think. > > > locallist = [(x) for x in os.listdir(localdir) if > > os.path.getsize(os.path.join(localdir, x)) > 0] # upload all local > > files > > localfiles = fnmatch.filter(locallist, '*.OUT') > > for localname in localfiles: > > localpath = os.path.join(localdir, localname) > > if localname[-3:] == 'OUT': > > csv_file = file(localpath) > > reader = csv.DictReader(csv_file,['phone', 'msg', 'PZ', 'MP']) > > for row in reader: > > phone = row['phone'] > > msg = row['msg'] > > > > print time.ctime(time.time()),' uploading', msg, 'to', > > phone > > csv_file.close() # after you finish reading the rows > > Kent
Thanks for the responses. I had tried the csv_file.close() but was getting an exception in my try/except block. I reckon I'm doing this wrong or in the wrong place. So I'll try reworking the code and see where I get. At least I can forget about the DictReader class. It's my code I need to look at. Thanks John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
