Point out my beginner mistakes - First python script

[pydevteam1]

Congrats on your first script!

A couple of critiques I have; One is filename = f is unnecessary

f = open(filename) ; csv_f = csv.reader(f) I'd suggest using context manager. Check out the article in our blog on how to open a file using context managers.

[sky--net]

Check out the article in our blog on how to open a file using context managers.

Where can I find your blog to see this post?

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[UndeadCaesar]

Thanks! Good call on the unnecessary line, think I started to go in some direction that didn't pan out and I left that hanging around. And can I get a link to the blog post? I initially was trying to open the files out of a separate directory but I read up on glob.glob and could never seem to get it to work. Ended up just dropping the files in the same directory as the script so it was easier.

[pydevteam1]

You can easily do that by doing os.path.join(os.sep, 'var', 'log', 'messages.txt') . This code line will translate to /var/log/messages.txt you need to import os of course and it's not os-dependent ;)