In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Claudio Grondi wrote: > > Here an example of what I mean > (Python 2.4.2, IDLE 1.1.2, Windows XP SP2, NTFS file system, 80 GByte > large file): > > >>> f = file('veryBigFile.dat','r') > >>> f = file('veryBigFile.dat','r+')
You mention the file size and gave a "speaking" name to that file -- does the file size matter? > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in -toplevel- > f = file('veryBigFile.dat','r+') > IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'veryBigFile.dat' > > Is it a BUG or a FEATURE? It's the error number Windows returns for that operation. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list