james frize wrote:
However, I can't open a file from /usr/share via my python script as I don't have permission to open files in a protected directory
print "loading links.txt from usr/share/doc/gtk-link-lizard..."
try:
self.text_file =
open("usr/share/doc/gtk-link-lizard/links.txt","r")
Check your filesystem paths carefully; unless I totally misunderstand some bizarre aspect of Python syntax, you're trying to open "usr/share/doc/gtk-link-lizard/links.txt" relative to whatever the code thinks the current directory is, not the absolute path "/usr/share/doc/gtk-link-lizard/links.txt".
-kgd