On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 11:18:27AM -0000, Alan Gauld wrote: > > I was wondering if it is possible to write a string to a specific line > > in a file without reading in the whole file in as the below. > > Some languages, such as COBOL and some BASICs etc support > random access files, unfortunately Python doesn't (Although I'll be > amazed if somebody hasn't cooked up (or is cooking up) a module > that does it)
You then go on to mention file.seek(). I thought that seek() provided "random access", ie. to seek to anywhere at random in a file. Can you clarify what you mean by "random access files"? Regards Andrew _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
