Traceback error

[tjnichols]

This runs, as in it appends the file. The problem is I get this traceback error and I don't know why.

employee_file = open("Employees.txt", "a")

employee_file.write("\nToby - Human resources")
employee_file.write("\nKelly - Customer service")

print(Employees.txt)

employee_file.close()

Error:
C:\Python365\python.exe F:/USERS/Tonya/Python/Draft/Writing_and_Appending_to_Files.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "F:/USERS/Tonya/Python/Draft/Writing_and_Appending_to_Files.py", line 8, in <module>
    print(Employees.txt)
NameError: name 'Employees' is not defined

Process finished with exit code 1

As always - thank you!

[wavic]

As it is, looks like you are trying to print the 'txt' attribute of Employees class.

Or you want to print the content of the file?

Write into the file:

with open("Employees.txt"), 'a') as employee_file:
    employee_file.write("\nToby - Human resources")
    employee_file.write("\nKelly - Customer service")

Read and print the content:

with open("Employees.txt"), 'r') as employee_file: # open for reading
    data = employee_file.read()

print(data)

[tjnichols]

Ok - I'm trying to append the records to the file and it works with the code I provided. It just had the traceback error. As it turns out - I shouldn't have had the print command where it was. It worked perfectly after that.

I tried the code your way as well. It also worked perfectly! Thank you!

How do you know which style to use?

Thanks again!

[wavic]

Using the with statement will close the file properly for you after its code block run so you don't have to remember to do that or can't forget it.