Super Newbie Question
John Ridley
ojokimu at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Apr 4 20:03:56 EDT 2005
--- joeyjwc at gmail.com wrote:
> In short, how might I go about deleting just the contents of a file?
> I tried several methods with my limited knowledge but had no luck.
I suppose the simplest thing to do would be to write an empty string to
the file:
>>> f = open('tmpfile.txt', 'w')
>>> f.write('')
>>> f.close() # or f.flush(), if keeping open
HTH
John Ridley
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