I have recently started to use Python to develop a new version of my website.
I'm working on a sort of "web engine" that takes the contents of a standardized file format I have designed and then outputs it using templates created by me. However, I'm only at the very beginning (i.e. opening and reading files) because I'm a newbie to Python. I want to spend a lot of time learning Python. I have searched with about 15 million different key phrases on Google and Google Groups but haven't come up with an answer to my following question: I want the "engine" to read the file, write its contents to another temporary file (for now it just writes the contents; later it will format it before writing the contents) and then deletes the *contents* of the temporary file after printing out the result, but not the temporary file itself. I want it to do this because that temporary file will be reused to write to for other pages as well. In short, how might I go about deleting just the contents of a file? I tried several methods with my limited knowledge but had no luck. Thank you very much for answering a lowly newbie's question. I really appreciate it. P.S. If there's a better that you think to perform what I am saying, I'd like to be enlightened. But I'd also like my question answered too, in case I ever need to do something similar again. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
