Unsupported operation :not writeable python

43
votes

Email validation

#Email validator
import re


def is_email():
    email=input("Enter your email")
    pattern = '[\.\w]{1,}[@]\w+[.]\w+'
    file = open('ValidEmails.txt','r')
    if re.match(pattern, email):
        file.write(email)

I am wondering why my data wont write to the disk. Python says that my operation is not supported.

is_email
    file.write(email)
io.UnsupportedOperation: not writable
2
pythonpython-3.x

2 Answers

93
votes

You open the variable "file" as a read only then attempt to write to it:

file = open('ValidEmails.txt','r')

Instead, use the 'w' flag.

file = open('ValidEmails.txt','w')
...
file.write(email)
0
votes
file = open('ValidEmails.txt','wb')
file.write(email.encode('utf-8', 'ignore'))

This is solve your encode error also.