Tommy B wrote: > bruno at modulix wrote: (snip)
>>import os >>old = open("/path/to/file.txt", "r") >>new = open("/path/to/new.txt", "w") >>for line in old: >> if line.strip() == "Bob 62" >> line = line.replace("62", "66") >> new.write(line) >>old.close() >>new.close() >>os.rename("/path/to/new.txt", "/path/to/file.txt") >> (snip) > > Umm... I tried using this method and it froze. Infiinite loop, I'm > guessing. Wrong guess - unless, as Fredrik suggested, you have an infinite disk with an infinite file on it. If so, please share with, we would be *very* interested !-) Seriously : a for loop can only become an infinite loop if the iterable is infinite. AFAIK, file objects (created from regular files on a standard filesystem) are definitively not infinite. Problem is elsewhere. But since you prefered to guess - instead of providing relevant informations - we just can't help. -- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list