How do you make .art a text file?

Question

I managed to get a new file written as owl.art, but it's not a text file? In the Type section of my file selector it says ART File.

I created a new document by creating a new file that says
`open(f"{oldName}.art","w")`

Comments

Try opening the .art ile with text editor if you're using a mac

Answer 1

You just have to open it with notepad and it will convert it.

Comments

Notepad works on Windows. Note that there is no conversion happening though. The .art file really is a plain text file, but Windows just isn't smart enough to realize it.

Answer 2

Your operating system is guessing what type of file it is based on the .art file extension, which it doesn't recognize, but it really is a text file, even if it doesn't have the .txt extension that your OS expects. You can generally force your text editor to open it anyway.

I thought Thonny would open any file, but one student on a Mac had an issue where Thonny wouldn't let them change the filter to "all files", so they opened the .ART file with TextEdit instead.

Comments

Yeah, thanks! I didn't realize that the .art was actually a text file.
Thanks for telling me earlier too :)