Mike Rovner wrote:
Right. Thanks for the correction.
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
Mike Rovner wrote:
if os.stat says the_file is too big:
fh = open(the_file, 'rb')
fh.seek(2008, 2)
should be
fh.seek(-2008, 2)
right?
data = fh.read()
fh.close()
assert len(data)==2008 # you may want some error processing here
fh = open(the_file, 'wb')
fh.write(data)
fh.close()
or
if os.path.getsize(the_file) > TOO_BIG:
fh = open(the_file, 'rb+')
fh.seek(-2008, 2)
data = fh.read()
fh.seek(0) # rewind
fh.write(data)
fh.truncate()
fh.close()
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Thanks for the info guys!
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