زياد بن عبدالعزيز الباتلي wrote:
> Alan Gauld wrote:
>> "Diana Hawksworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>>
>>> How do I find a particular name, change the score and then save
>>> the changes back to the text file again??
>> iterate over the file checking (and modifying) each line
>> write the line back out:
>>
>> Pseudo code
>>
>> Out = open('foo.txt','w')
> BEWARE: this will truncate the file immediately, erasing all the data in
> it!!!
>
> Use a temporary file and after you finish processing the data in the
> original file, move (or rename) the temporary file to the original name.
The fileinput module can help with this. It lets you edit a file
line-by-line, in place, with a backup:
import fileinput
for line in fileinput.input('test.txt', inplace=1, backup='.bak'):
if 'somestring' in line:
line = 'I changed it\n'
print line,
Kent
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