if callfunc == 'initialize':
  
  # just like python's open() function
  myfileobject = open("hello.file","w")   
  
  # we also could have used myfileobject.write("hello world\n")
  print >> myfileobject, "hello world"     
    
  myfileobject.close()

  # we can use file instead of open.   They work the same...
  newfileobject = file("hello.file","r")   
  
  print newfileobject.read()
  newfileobject.close()