To get the contents of the file object, use its read() method, eg: a=open("myfile.txt", "rb) output=a.read() "output" is now a string you can use re on, etc. Chris McDonough mailto:chrism@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com Publishers of Zope http://www.zope.org

-----Original Message----- From: Michel Pelletier [mailto:michel@digicool.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 1:08 PM To: 'Richard Smol'; zope@zope.org Subject: RE: [Zope] readinf File contents

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-----Original Message----- From: Richard Smol [mailto:jazzcat@dds.nl] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 12:38 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] readinf File contents

Hi there,

This Zope keeps baffling me ... now how do I simply read the contents of a File-object?

fileObject.data or str(fileObject)

Referencing a file object by name from python will not return it's contents, it will return the object. The object does not, nor should it, act or look like a string, which is what re.split expects.

-Michel

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