Python path and append

[Seymore4Head]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 18:24:02 -0000 (UTC), Rob Gaddi
<rgaddi at highlandtechnology.invalid> wrote:

>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.

I was reading that.  I have read it before.  I don't use python enough
to even remember the simple stuff.  Then when I try to use if for
something simple I forget how.

f = open('wout.txt', 'r+')
for line in f:
    line=line.strip()
    f.write(line+" *")
f.close()

Still broke.  How about just telling me where I missed?  Please?