(solved) help with program calling to and writing to a txt document

Question

I have used this code before and it worked in a different program. the program for reading the code works just fine but this code wont right to the text document.

link to code
https://code.sololearn.com/cLJGMS6koalW
I only put the code I thought was important to this issue any help would be great

link to read comment code
https://code.sololearn.com/c2l9N4V5GgDy

Answer 1

I see that you figured out a solution, so all is well - perhaps. I was pondering, if it is a text file, then why does the file-writing code use binary file mode "b"? And shouldn't it be "wb" (if not "w")?

And if binary is really what was intended, then doesn't the string have to be converted to a bytes object? For example,

comment = open("comment.txt","wb")
comment1 = input("leave comment here : ")
comment.write(bytes("~~~"+comment1+"~~~", encoding="utf8"))

Answer 2

Delicate Cat after doing a little research and a quick programming test, I concur 'del comment' would close the file. The IOBase class provides a default __del__ method that calls close().

Answer 3

Brian Oh, that sounds logical. Thank you for the answer.

Answer 4

the issue was that I was trying to call to a text file that wasn't in the right location I created a text file in the write folder and changed the text files name and now the code works just fine

Answer 5

Brian In David Aseltine's code, doesn't 'del comment' also close the file?

Answer 6

Brian the code should actually have "a" not "b" I was changing little things to attempt to fix it and ended up changing it back to "a" after I figured out the real issue