Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Since strings are
> immutable I can't assign different values to a specific slice of the
> string. How can I accomplish this?
>
...
> #My Current Code
>
> # read the data file in as a list
> F = open('C:\\path\\to\file', "r")
> List = F.readlines()
> F.close()
>
> #Loop through the file and format each line
> a=len(List)
> while a > 0:
>
> List.insert(a,"2")
> a=a-1
>
> # write the changed data (list) to a file
> FileOut = open("C:\\path\\to\\file", "w")
> FileOut.writelines(List)
> FileOut.close()
>
> Thanks for any help and thanks for helping us newbies,
>
You probably don't want to use readlines. It is almost always cleaner just
to iterate over the file itself.
You can't change an existing string, but creating a new string isn't
exactly rocket science.
lines = []
for line in F:
modified = line[:16] + "CHANGED" + line[23:]
# or maybe
modified = line.replace("1999999", "CHANGED")
lines.append(modified)
FileOut.writelines(lines)
To modify a file inplace have a look at the fileinput module.
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