presentt wrote: > Hello all, > > I just wrote a really simple script and named it helloworld.py. Inside > was only: > > #!/usr/bin/env > print "Hello, world" > > I used chmod to set the permissions, and ran it to see what happened (I > just started learning Python, if you couldn't guess) > > Then, I typed ls in the directory to see what was there, and I noticed > a new file, namely helloworld.py~ . What is that file (its contents > are identicle to helloworld.py)? Why the ~? > > Thanks a lot. I'm using Ubuntu Linux 5.04 (Hoary), and wrote the > script with gedit. > > ~~Ted Present
As others have already said: this is not a python issue. A ~ suffix is commonly used by editors for backup file. If you save a file from the editor, and the file already exists (so it doesn't happen the first time you save a new file), the existing version is renamed with the ~ suffix. After some time, you will learn to simply ignore these files ;) Many file managers have already learnt this lesson and have options to hide such backup files. -- Benjamin Niemann Email: pink at odahoda dot de WWW: http://www.odahoda.de/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
