At Friday 11/8/2006 11:41, Colin Wildsmith wrote: >I am making a gui for the purpose that I can >change the values in a list of different >criteria which is found in a text file, such as: > >Name(tab)rating(tab)breast size(tab)occurrences > > > > >However as far as I know Python does not allow >you to easily change a specific line in a text >file. You have to place the whole file to >memory, change what you need to and then write >the file back after deleting the previous information.
Yes. If the lines are not all fixed-length, this is true in general for any language, not only Python. > Assuming this is true, how do i find where the > tabs are in the file so that I can distinguish between the different criteria? >Assuming this is not true, does anyone suggest another way to do it? Look at the csv module: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-csv.html Gabriel Genellina Softlab SRL __________________________________________________ Preguntá. Respondé. Descubrí. Todo lo que querías saber, y lo que ni imaginabas, está en Yahoo! Respuestas (Beta). ¡Probalo ya! http://www.yahoo.com.ar/respuestas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
