"Sai Krishna M" wrote: > One crude idea i had was to read the file in a list and insert the > string correspondingly.
file systems usually don't support insertion and deletion, so if you want to move things around, you have to do that yourself. reading and writing lists (using readlines/writelines) works well, as long as the files aren't too large. > Is there any other way to do this? not with plain files. if you need to do lots of inserts/deletes, you should probably use a database manager instead (which uses more elaborate data structures on disk). see e.g. the "dbm" and "bsddb" modules in the standard library. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
