Super Newbie Question

[Greg Ewing]

Joey C. wrote:
> the issue with the
> temporary file is that when I write something new to it, if the old
> contents of the file was larger, not all of it will be overwritten.

Not if you open it with

   f = open(filename, "w")

which will delete any previous contents the file
may have had.

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