hi gabriel, i am utilizing file names and their paths which are written to a file on a singe line. now if i use records that would be wasting too much space as there is no limit on the no. of characters (at max) in the path. next best approach i can think of is reading the file in memory editing it and writing the portion that has just been altered and the followiing lines but is there a better approach you can highlight?
> You can only replace a line in-place with another of exactly the same > length. If the lengths differ, you have to write the modified line and all > the following ones. > If all your lines are of fixed length, you have a "record". To read record > N (counting from 0): > a_file.seek(N*record_length) > return a_file.read(record_length) > And then you are reinventing ISAM. > > -- > Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
