dirkheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't have a file called 'a_file.txt' > I want to create that file and write some data to it.
How exactly are you starting the Python interpreter? "No such file or directory" on file creation can happen when you try to create a file in a directory that has ceased to exist: $ mkdir x $ cd x $ rm -rf ~/x $ python Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Oct 5 2007, 13:36:32) [GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> f = open('foo', 'w') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'foo' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list