On Oct 31, 9:55 am, "Alf P. Steinbach" <al...@start.no> wrote: > * Zeynel: > > > > > > > On Oct 31, 9:23 am, "Alf P. Steinbach" <al...@start.no> wrote: > >> * Zeynel: > > >>> Hello, > >>> I've been studying the official tutorial, so far it's been fun, but > >>> today I ran into a problem with the write(). So, I open the file pw > >>> and write "hello" and read: > >>> f = open("pw", "r+") > >>> f.write("hello") > >>> f.read() > >>> But read() returns a bunch of what looks like meta code: > >>> "ont': 1, 'center_insert_even\xc4\x00K\x02\xe8\xe1[\x02z\x8e > >>> \xa5\x02\x0b > >>> \x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x08\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x0 > >>> 0'QUEUE'\np1\n > >>> (S'exec' .... > >>> What am I doing wrong? Thank you. > >> After the 'write' the current position in the file is after the "hello", so > >> reading will read further content from there. > > >> The following works (disclaimer: I'm utter newbie in Python, and didn't > >> consult > >> the documentation, and it's the first time I've seen the Python 'open'): > > >> f = open("pw", "r+") > >> f.write( "hello" ) > >> f.seek( 0 ) # Go back to start of file > >> f.read() > >> f.close() > > >> Cheers & hth., > > >> - Alf > > > Thanks, but it didn't work for me. I still get the meta file. Although > > I see that "hello" is there. > > Just a thought: try "w+" instead of "r+". > > Because if you do > > print( open.__doc__ ) > > as I recall it said something about "w" truncating the file? > > Cheers & hth., > > - Alf
No :) I still got the same thing. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list