#Here is a program that 
#illustrates writing text
#to a file, and reading
#from a file.

def read_write_files():
  dir=pickAFolder()
  outfile=open(dir+"/"+"sample.txt","wt")
  outfile.write("Hello.")
  outfile.write("How are you?")
  outfile.write("\nGood to see you.")
  outfile.write("\nYes, I'm kind of a boring guy.")
  outfile.close()

#Let's read from the file we just made in
#two different ways. The first way reads
#the file into one humongous string. The
#second way reads the file one line at a
#time and returns a list of strings.
  infile=open(dir+"/"+"sample.txt","rt")
  s=infile.read()
  infile.close()
  infile=open(dir+"/"+"sample.txt","rt")
  t=infile.readlines()
  infile.close()
  print "s:",s
  print "t:",t