Super Newbie Question

[Greg Ewing]

joeyjwc at gmail.com wrote:

> In short, how might I go about deleting just the contents of a file?

File objects have a truncate() method which chops the file
back to zero length (or a length that you specify).

But why not just delete the file? You can always
create another one with the same name later if
you want.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg