Re: replacing lines in a file

2011-01-27 Thread MRAB
On 28/01/2011 00:58, mpnordland wrote: thanks for explaining what I was doing wrong and how reading the file works. What would you suggest I do to remedy the situation? Write the new config out to a new file and then replace the old file with the new file. I'd use shutil.move(...) to do the rep

Re: replacing lines in a file

2011-01-27 Thread mpnordland
thanks for explaining what I was doing wrong and how reading the file works. What would you suggest I do to remedy the situation? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: replacing lines in a file

2011-01-26 Thread MRAB
On 26/01/2011 21:50, mpnordland wrote: Attached are a config file parser that i'm working on, and a example config file. Basically, what my problem is is in write_config, it should search through the file, and replace the lines with whatever the modified version is, it is also designed to ignore

replacing lines in a file

2011-01-26 Thread mpnordland
Attached are a config file parser that i'm working on, and a example config file. Basically, what my problem is is in write_config, it should search through the file, and replace the lines with whatever the modified version is, it is also designed to ignore comments. To see my problem (which is