Bob Gailer wrote:
> At 02:55 PM 8/24/2005, Scott Oertel wrote:
>
>> How do I use the built in file objects to insert text into a file at a
>> certain location?
>>
>> i.e.
>>
>> something, 2, chance, weee
>> nothing, happened, crap, nice
>>
>> .... need to search for "something" and insert, "what," before it
>
>
> Here's the algorithm. If you know enough Python you will be able to
> code it. So put together a program, give it a try and come back with
> questions.
>
> read the file into a string variable (assuming the file is not humungus)
> find the location of "something" in the string
> assemble a new string consisting of:
> the original string up to the location (index) of "something"
> "what"
> the rest of the original string
> write the new string to the file
>
> Bob Gailer
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basically I took the idea and the code example given and wrote this
little function, i stuck vars in this html page like #email# and just
used it like this, " insertdata('#email#','[EMAIL PROTECTED]')
works perfect!
def insertdata(name, data):
file = open('template.html', 'r+')
contents = file.read()
pos = contents.index(name)
file.seek(pos)
file.write(data)
file.write(contents[pos + len(name):])
file.close()
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