problem with read() write()

[Zeynel]

On Oct 31, 9:23 am, "Alf P. Steinbach" <al... at start.no> wrote:
> * Zeynel:
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> > Hello,
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> > I've been studying the official tutorial, so far it's been fun, but
> > today I ran into a problem with the write(). So, I open the file pw
> > and write "hello" and read:
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> > f = open("pw", "r+")
> > f.write("hello")
> > f.read()
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> > But read() returns a bunch of what looks like meta code:
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> > "ont': 1, 'center_insert_even\xc4\x00K\x02\xe8\xe1[\x02z\x8e
> > \xa5\x02\x0b
> > \x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x08\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x0 0'QUEUE'\np1\n
> > (S'exec' ....
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> > What am I doing wrong? Thank you.
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> After the 'write' the current position in the file is after the "hello", so
> reading will read further content from there.
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> The following works (disclaimer: I'm utter newbie in Python, and didn't consult
> the documentation, and it's the first time I've seen the Python 'open'):
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> f = open("pw", "r+")
> f.write( "hello" )
> f.seek( 0 )  # Go back to start of file
> f.read()
> f.close()
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> Cheers & hth.,
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> - Alf

Thanks, but it didn't work for me. I still get the meta file. Although
I see that "hello" is there.