In article <505ccdc5$0$6919$e4fe5...@news2.news.xs4all.nl>, Hans Mulder <han...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 21/09/12 16:29:55, Franck Ditter wrote: > > I create a text file utf-8 encoded in Python 3 with IDLE (Mac Lion). > > It runs fine and creates the disk file, visible with > > TextWrangler or another. > > But I can't open it with IDLE (its name is greyed). > > IDLE is supposed to read utf-8 files, no ? > > This works on Windows-7. > > There's a little pop-menu below the list of files. > > It allows you to choose which kind of files you want to open. > By default, it is set to "Python files", which greys out all > files, except those with a '.py' or '.pyw' extension. > Setting it to "Text files" should help, or else try "All files". > > Hope this helps > > -- HansM Alas this pop-up menu is for Windows only, I don't find it on MacOS-X. My files are xxx.dat files and not visible, even text only (numeric data). This can be filed as something to do ! Thanks, franck -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list