On Aug 26, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Stuart Edwards wrote:
This is probably a trivial question, but has me stumped. I'm writing
a script that requires the user to input the name of a data file, and
then load and process the contents.
datafile=input("enter the name of the datafile ", "s")
load datafile
after inputing the file name, this returns an error 'could not find
the file datafile'
Right, 'load datafile' is the same as 'load("datafile")'.
datafile=input("enter the name of the datafile ", "s")
load(datafile)
seems to load the name of the datafile as a string and subsequent
processing merely shuffles the characters in the file name around.
I've tried various other syntax 'guesses' but no success.
Right, because datafile is the string containing the filename.
Try data = load(datafile).
Rob
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