> OK, why don't you store those changing lines in the database? > > Can you arrange for those changeable lines to be fixed length, i.e. > by padding with spaces or something? If you can, then you could just > overwrite them in place. Use flock or fcntl (Un*x) or the comparable > Windows locking primitives to make sure other processes don't update > the file simultaneously.
hmm , the line is actually being read from a database and now needs to be written into a file replacing the line after the marker... the line contains only an ip address pseudocode is like this: get newlinetext from database # this is ok done with kinterbas preferably check if file not in use by other process open file and find desired marker go to line after marker and replace that one with newlinetext close the file Should be easy, but I am suffering from New Year writer's block.. Nx -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
