Instant File I/O

[Charles]

"jam1991" <jordanmeyer1991 at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> they sign into the program with; however, this information doesn't
> appear in the file until after the program has closed. This poses a
> problem for retrieving the up-to-date statistics data during the same
> session. Is there anyway I can fix this? I'm using .write() to write
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    .flush() ?
>From http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/file_methods.htm
file.flush()
Flush the internal buffer, like stdio's fflush. This may be a no-op on some 
file-like objects.
Charles