Editing File

[akameswaran at gmail.com]

D wrote:
> Hi, I currently have a Python app with a Tkinter GUI frontend that I
> use for system administration.  Everytime it launches, it reads a text
> file which contains info about each host I wish to monitor - each field
> (such as IP, hostname, etc.) is delimited by !!.  Now, I want to be
> able to edit host information from within the GUI - what would  be the
> best way to go about this?  Basically I just need to either edit the
> original host line, or write a new host line and delete the
> original..thanks!

Might be overkill - but pickle the  data memeber that contains the
information.  If you use text instead of binary pickling it should
still be editable by hand.  for a single line of text it may be a bit
much - but it's still probably quicker than opening a file, parsing
etc.