[solved] inline script write to file

AschsLines · April 2012

Hy There,

thx for the 0.26 version, looks great!

I'm trying to write informations to a .txt file using an inline script, containing some variables and other stuff.
openSesame returns a SyntaxError when i add a line break to file.write(str). Using the same line on command line works well however.

command line:

f = open(filename, 'w')
f.write("text.txt")     #works
f.write("text.txt\n") # works also

openSesame:

f = open(filename, 'w')
f.write("text.txt")     #works
f.write("text.txt\n") # doesn't work -> SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal

I have tried several options, but none works.

Thx in advance!
Cheers, Björn

sebastiaan · April 2012

Hi Björn,

Ah, yes. It's kind of annoying, but OpenSesame doesn't play nice with newlines (also see this discussion). Fortunately, in inline_scripts the workaround is quite simple. Instead of typing '\n' directly, you use ord(10), like so:

f.write("text.txt"+ord(10))

Cheers!
Sebastiaan

AschsLines · April 2012

Hi Sebastiaan,

thank you so much for quick response!

I have used

f.write("text.txt"+ord(10))

, but openSesame stills return an error, unfortunately it doesn't explicite it. Instead i tried

f.write("text.txt"+chr(10))

, and now openSesame writes to the file with line breaks :-)
Thx for the inspiration!
Cheers! Björn

sebastiaan · April 2012

Ow right, yes, of course! ord() makes a number from a character, and chr() makes a character from a number. I mixed this up, but I meant chr(10).

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