On Jun 6, 10:18 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: <snippage> > This code works PERFECTLY in Linux. Where I have a match in the file > I'm processing, it gets cut out from the start of the match until the > end of the match, and written to the temporary file in tempdir. > It does not work in Windows. It does not create or write to the > temporary file AT ALL. It creates the tempdir directory with no > problem.
In general, I don't use string concatenation when building paths. Especially on scripts that are meant to run on multiple platforms. > Here's the kicker: it works perfectly in Windows if Windows is running > in VMware on a Linux host! (I assume that that's because VMware is > passing some call to the host.) probably a red herring. > Can anyone tell me what it is that I'm missing which would prevent the > file from being created on Windows natively? Get rid of the 'posix' check and use os.path.join to create 'tempfileName' and see if it works. HTH. ... Jay Graves -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
