[Zope] readinf File contents

[Chris McDonough]

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
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> -----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
> 
> 
> > -----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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