planetthoughtful wrote: > I think that would be a great solution if the value being 'edited' was > relatively short, or numeric, etc. But the values I want to 'edit' can > be several hundred characters long (ie they're text fields containing > todo notes), and using your method, I'd either accept the existing > value, or have to retype the text for that record. I think I mislead > people when I used the word 'default' -- I meant in the sense of being > able to edit the existing value, so that value, out of each record, > would be presented as the 'default', available for editing.
For fields that long I think a GUI is more appropriate than trying to use command-line editing. You might take a look at easygui - it's textbox is readonly but it looks like it wouldn't be hard to make it editable - or learn enough Tkinter to do it yourself. http://www.ferg.org/easygui/ Kent -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
