echo "Denied" > log.txt
later log.txt is opened in python:
def read_file(logs,self): print 'here' f1=open(logs,"r","utf-8") for line in f1: print str(line) On running it gives error:
"TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, instance found" it probably should be:
def read_file(self, logs): with the reverse parameter order
def read_file(logs, self): your method try to open the self instance instead of logs when you call:
self.read_file(logs) Before calling read_file(logs), make sure that:
logs = "log.txt" If necessary, write the complete path to "log.txt", for instance:
logs = "/home/user/log.txt" Also, and I'm not sure if this was a typo in your question, make sure that you declare read_file like this:
def read_file(self, logs): That is, self must come first.
Your logs variable would have to be the string "log.txt" for this to work. Apparently it is something else.
If the content of the file is the problem, maybe its not asccii you could do import codecs
def read_file(logs,self): print 'here' f1 = codecs.open( "someFile", "r", "utf-8" ) f1=open(logs,"r","utf-8") for line in f1: print str(line)
