Editing File

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Thanks, guys.  So overall, would it just be easier (and not too rigged)
if any changes were made by just editing the text file?  I want to do
this project the right way, but if it's going to be a big pain to
implement the edit function, just modifying the text file directly
isn't that big of a deal..

akameswaran at gmail.com wrote:
> 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.