Python invalid syntax with “with” statement

Question

I am working on writing a simple python application for linux (maemo). However I am getting SyntaxError: invalid syntax on line 23: with open(file,\'w\') as f

Answer 1

Most likely, you are using an earlier version of Python that doesn't support the with statement. Here's how to do the same thing without using with:

fileh = open(file, 'w')
try:
    # Do things with fileh here
finally:
    fileh.close()