how to save strings to a temporary buffer?

[Roman Suzi]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 ed_tsang at yahoo.com wrote:

>How can I save string to a tempororay buffer and then write it to a
>file afterwards?
>
>I have a function that output a formatted string each time it is
>called; but instead of open a file and write it each time; I would
>like to save these strings to a , may be a tmeporory buffer, and then
>write it to a file when everythign is completed... how cna I do that?
>thansk
>

You can specify buffer size in open() to the size you want.
This will have the effect you want.

f = open("file", "w", 100000)
...

f.flush()  # when you want to write buffer to disk

...

f.close()

Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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