Thanks for the tip.
Still broke. :(
f = open('wout.txt', 'r+')
for line in f:
if line=="":
exit
line=line[:-1]
line=line+" *"
f.write(line)
print line
f.close()
I did notice that it wrote the 3 lines of test file but it didn't
append the * after the third entry and it starts printing garbage
after that.
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 19:08:56 +0000, Joaquin Alzola
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Strip() = white spaces.
>Description
>The method strip() returns a copy of the string in which all chars have been
>stripped from the beginning and the end of the string (default whitespace
>characters).
>
>Use to remove return carriage--> line[:-1]
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Python-list
>[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>Seymore4Head
>Sent: 25 April 2016 20:01
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: Python path and append
>
>On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 18:24:02 -0000 (UTC), Rob Gaddi
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Seymore4Head wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 18:29:38 -0400, Seymore4Head
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am going to forget using a directory path.
>>> I would like to take the file win.txt and append a space and the *
>>> symbol.
>>>
>>> f = open('win.txt', 'r+')
>>> for line in f:
>>> f.read(line)
>>> f.write(line+" *")
>>>
>>> This doesn't work. Would someone fix it please? It is for a task I
>>> am trying to accomplish just for a home task.
>>
>>"for line in f:" already means "make the variable line equal to each
>>line in f sequentially". f.read is both superfluous and also doesn't
>>do that. Leave it out entirely.
>>
>>The next problem you'll have is that iterating over the lines of the
>>file leaves the newline at the end of line, so your * will end up on
>>the wrong line.
>>
>>Do yourself a favor:
>>https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/inputoutput.html
>>isn't very long.
>
>I was reading that. I have read it before. I don't use python enough to even
>remember the simple stuff. Then when I try to use if for something simple I
>forget how.
>
>f = open('wout.txt', 'r+')
>for line in f:
> line=line.strip()
> f.write(line+" *")
>f.close()
>
>Still broke. How about just telling me where I missed? Please?
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