Hi there, I'm just curious to know as to how the changes you have suggested will solve the problem. Instead of appending (what I was doing), now we are opening and storing the files in 'binary' format. All the other entries in my file will be gone when I write into the file again.
What I actuall need is this - I have some dictionary values stored in a file. I retrieve these entries based on the key value specified by the user. Now if I want to modify the values under a particular key, I first search if that key exists in the file and if yes retrieve the values associated with the key and modify them. Now when I re-insert this modified key-value pair back in the file. I have 2 entries now (one is the old wntry and the second is the new modified one). So if I search for that key the next time I'll have 2 entries for it. That's not what we want. So how do I remove the old entry without the other values getting deleted ? In other words, keeping the other entries as it is, I want to update a particular key-value pair. Let me know in case any bright idea strikes... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
