File IO Issues, help :(

[Eric Wertman]

chuck in a jsfile.close().  The buffer isn't flushing with what you
are doing now.  jsfile.flush() might work... not sure.  Closing and
re-opening the file for sure will help though.

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Kevin K <kkuhl05 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey everyone, I'm new to python and am trying to do a little project
>  with it. I'm running into problems writing over a file. I read from
>  the file and loop through for a specfic case in which I change
>  something. After I open and give it opening options (w, r, etc) one of
>  two things happens: either the file gets truncated and my writing
>  never takes place (or it seems it doesnt) or everything is appended to
>  the file and I have a double of what I started with, its never just
>  the updated file. Can someone shed some light on this for me?? Code
>  below:
>
>  jsfile = open("../timeline.js", "r+")
>  jscontent = jsfile.readlines()
>  jsfile.truncate()
>
>  for line in jscontent:
>         if re.search('var d =', line):
>                 line = "var d = \""+mint['1'].ascdate()+"\"\n"
>                 print line
>         jsfile.write(line)
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