Appending/inserting in outfile.write()

[Fredrik Lundh]

Will <wcohen at interpath.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to write a CGI Python guestbook.  Would there be a way for me
> to get the script to simply append, say 14 bytes from the end, to the
> HTML guestbook file rather than completely overwriting it and holding
> only one entry?  I can use outfile.write to simply rewrite the entire
> file.  Do I need to use another function or just set a flag?  If I can't
> insert text, can i just delete the last 14 bytes and rewrite the end
> from there?

you cannot insert or delete data from files,
but overwriting things is easy:

    fp = open(filename, "r+")
    fp.seek(-14, 2)
    fp.write("add to the end of the file")

for more info, see the docs.

hope this helps!

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