> > The above works well. I am able to open the file and read it's > contents. I assume to read a file in text file "mode" the parameter is > scanned for a ".txt" extension, otherwise the Python runtime doesn't > know what version of "open(...)" to invoke. How do I pass the original > filename (MyTextFile.slc.rsc) and get Python to open it as a text > file? Thanks in advance everyone!
Python doesn't care what extension you use: it doesn't even look at it. The full file name is passed blindly to the base OS. To open a file in text mode, do open(filename, "r"); it opens in binary if you do open(filename, "rb"). The filename has no impact on if its text or binary mode. There's something else going on here, I think, and you got misdirected from it. Are you sure you didn't typo the Filepath slightly? Perhaps left off a \ or had a comma instead of a period -- etc? Or that the filename didn't have some odd character in it that looked like a regular ascii character? --S
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