Read from, then write to a file without closing first???

[Miki Tebeka]

Hello Amy,

> I am looking to make this code a little "nicer"... any suggestions???
> I want to do a "read+" where I would be able to first read the contents of
> the file... then either close the file out or write to the file without
> appending.  I want to overwrite the content.
def check(file, msg):
    if open(file).read() != msg:
        open(file, "w").write(msg)

HTH.
Miki