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[Bryan]

i use outlook express. in the tools/options/send tab, if you uncheck "reply
to message in same format in which they were sent".  then for "news sending
format" select "plain text.   now you can reply to any newsgroup posting
that was originally in html and respond properly in the middle or after the
original quoted text.

bryan

"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote in message
news:F4Gcna3BQPMwK0WjXTWcpA at comcast.com...
Please post plain text instead of html.  With Outlook Express, at least, it
is impossible to respond properly (after the quoted original text).  Next,
read the tutorial and then the relevant parts of the Manuals.  In
particular, in the Lib Reference. the sections on file objects and the os
module.  While doing so, experiment with statements using the interactive
interpreter.

tjr
  "Darren Teo" <darrenteo82 at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1054385749.10667.python-list at python.org...
  Hey how would i do this if i have to write a list of strings into a
"oldfile1" and deleting the "oldfile" before renaming the "oldfile1" to the
"oldfile" ...... i hope i am making sense here ..... thanks

              # eg. filename is named oldfile #
  def writelines(filename, lines)