Python path and append

[Rob Gaddi]

Seymore4Head wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 18:29:38 -0400, Seymore4Head
> <Seymore4Head at Hotmail.invalid> wrote:
>
> I am going to forget using a directory path.
> I would like to take the file win.txt and append a space and the *
> symbol.
>
> f = open('win.txt', 'r+')
> for line in f:
>     f.read(line)
>     f.write(line+" *")
>
> This doesn't work.  Would someone fix it please?  It is for a task I
> am trying to accomplish just for a home task.

"for line in f:" already means "make the variable line equal to each
line in f sequentially".  f.read is both superfluous and also doesn't do
that.  Leave it out entirely.

The next problem you'll have is that iterating over the lines of the
file leaves the newline at the end of line, so your * will end up on the
wrong line.

Do yourself a favor: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/inputoutput.html
isn't very long.

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