On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 10:45 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 11:05:01 +0000, BartC <b...@freeuk.com> declaimed the
> following:
>
>>
>>But out of interest, how would /you/ write a function that takes a
>>file-spec and turns it into an in-memory string? And what would its use
>>look like?
>>
> At the basics -- and letting the garbage collector get the file handle
> later...
>
> imstr = open(fileName, "r").read()
>
> If you want a separate function... (the name here stinks, but...)
>
> def fn2str(fileName):
> fin = open(fileName, "r")
> imstr = fin.read()
> fin.close()
> return imstr
>
> ...
> data = fn2str("some.file")
>
> letting any exceptions propagate upwards.
While we're on the subject of Pythonic ways to read files, this is NOT.
http://thedailywtf.com/articles/finding-the-file
It's also not idiomatic C# code either, though...
ChrisA
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