Thanks Steve. Appreciate it! S "Steven Bethard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Samantha wrote: >> input = open(r'C:\Documents and >> Settings\Owner\Desktop\somefile.html','r') >> L = input.readlines() >> input.close >> >> output = open(r'C:\Documents and >> Settings\Owner\Desktop\somefile_test.html','w') >> for t in range(len(L)): >> output.writelines(L[t]) >> output.close > > I think you want to do [1]: > > input = open(r'somefile.html', 'r') > lst = input.readlines() > input.close() # note the () -- this is a method call > > output = open(r'somefile_test.html', 'w') > output.writelines(lst) # not in a for-loop > output.close() # note the () -- this is a method call > > If you really want to use a for-loop, the code should look like: > > for line in L: > output.write(line) > > If you call writelines when you only want to write one line, you're going > to get odd behavior -- Python's going to interpret each character in your > line as a "line" itself. > >> Also is there a way to test for EOF in Python? > > file.read() or file.readline() will return '' if you have reached the end > of the file. > > STeVe > > [1] In fact, what you really probably want to do is to take advantage of > the fact that a file is an iterator. You can write: > > input = open(r'somefile.html', 'r') > output = open(r'somefile_test.html', 'w') > output.writelines(input) > > And the lines of somefile.html will be written to somefile_test.html. You > might also look at the shutil module.
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