[wxPython] Reading a text file to a wxString

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What is the best way to get the text from a file into a string? The only thing that I can figure is to create a tempoarary Text Control and then using it’s LoadFile function.

any ideas?

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What is the best way to get the text from a file into a string?
The only thing that I can figure is to create a tempoarary Text
Control and then using it's LoadFile function.

You don't need wxWindows to do it, just use Python:

    text = open(file).read()

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This worked great for reading. Now I am wanting to write. I'm having a lot
of trouble finding these commands in the Documentation. where do I look?

  -Mikhael

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Subject: Re: [wxPython] Reading a text file to a wxString

> What is the best way to get the text from a file into a string?
> The only thing that I can figure is to create a tempoarary Text
> Control and then using it's LoadFile function.

You don't need wxWindows to do it, just use Python:

    text = open(file).read()

--
Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
robin@AllDunn.com Java give you jitters?
http://wxPython.org Relax with wxPython!

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Hi Mikhael,

This worked great for reading. Now I am wanting to write. I'm having a lot
of trouble finding these commands in the Documentation. where do I look?

Try:

         http://www.python.org/doc/current/

This is all described in the standard Python docs -- the "Library Reference" contains everything you need to know. It's a good idea to become familiar with this, as it describes everything in quite a bit of detail...

  - Erik.

PS: To open a file for writing, try:

         f = open(fileName, "w")

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This is all described in the standard Python docs -- the "Library
Reference" contains everything you need to know. It's a good idea to
become familiar with this, as it describes everything in quite a bit of
detail...

Yes, except if you look there, you get all confused about fancy ways
to do fileIO, and never find the builtins.

The doc BADLY needs a way to search it. Discussion of file builtins
is here:

http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/node9.html

and you might consider running through, or at least skimming the whole tutorial:

http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/tut.html

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Hi Patricia,

This is all described in the standard Python docs -- the "Library
Reference" contains everything you need to know. It's a good idea to
become familiar with this, as it describes everything in quite a bit of
detail...

Yes, except if you look there, you get all confused about fancy ways
to do fileIO, and never find the builtins.

The doc BADLY needs a way to search it. Discussion of file builtins
is here:

http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/node9.html

and you might consider running through, or at least skimming the whole tutorial:

http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/tut.html

Interesting -- I've been working with Python full-time for nearly a year now, and I guess I must know the docs well enough not to let these things confuse me.

Thanks for pointing this out!

  - Erik.

PS: You *can* search the docs if you download them. Under Linux you can use grep; under Windows, the MS Help file includes the ability to search anyway. The only thing that's lacking is searching online...