fileinput

Dave Angel davea at ieee.org
Wed Aug 12 13:35:45 EDT 2009


naaman wrote:
> I'm writing my first Python script and
> I want to use fileinput to open a file in r+ mode.
> Tried fileinput.input(sys.argv[1:],"r+") but that didn't work.
> ANy ideas?
>
> Need to find and overwrite a line in a file several times.
> I can do it using open and seek() etc. but was wondering if I can use
> fileinput.
>
> thanks;
>
>
>   
I haven't used it, but check out the 'inplace' keyword parameter.

DaveA



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