Re: Unable to Concatenate a file - destination kept getting overwritten

2012-04-20 Thread Peter Otten
Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Foster Rilindo wrote: >> Is this right way to concatenate a file or is there a better way? > > I'd be inclined to ignore shutil and simply open one file for reading, > the other for appending, and manually transfer data from one to the >

Re: Unable to Concatenate a file - destination kept getting overwritten

2012-04-20 Thread Foster Rilindo
Nevermind. Dumb mistake. I should have used: destination = open(disk1,'ab') Doh. On Apr 20, 2012, at 8:03 PM, Foster Rilindo wrote: > I can't seem to concatenate. > > I got binary files here: > > yvaine:disk rilindo$ ls -lah > total 61440 > drwxr-xr-x 4 rilindo staff 136B Apr 20 19:47

Re: Unable to Concatenate a file - destination kept getting overwritten

2012-04-20 Thread MRAB
On 21/04/2012 02:03, Foster Rilindo wrote: I can't seem to concatenate. I got binary files here: yvaine:disk rilindo$ ls -lah total 61440 drwxr-xr-x 4 rilindo staff 136B Apr 20 19:47 . drwxr-xr-x 10 rilindo staff 340B Apr 20 19:45 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 rilindo staff20M Apr 20 20:00 di

Re: Unable to Concatenate a file - destination kept getting overwritten

2012-04-20 Thread Dave Angel
On 04/20/2012 09:03 PM, Foster Rilindo wrote: > I can't seem to concatenate. > > I got binary files here: > > yvaine:disk rilindo$ ls -lah > total 61440 > drwxr-xr-x 4 rilindo staff 136B Apr 20 19:47 . > drwxr-xr-x 10 rilindo staff 340B Apr 20 19:45 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 rilindo staff20

Re: Unable to Concatenate a file - destination kept getting overwritten

2012-04-20 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Foster Rilindo wrote: > Is this right way to concatenate a file or is there a better way? I'd be inclined to ignore shutil and simply open one file for reading, the other for appending, and manually transfer data from one to the other. open(disk1,"ab").write(ope

Unable to Concatenate a file - destination kept getting overwritten

2012-04-20 Thread Foster Rilindo
I can't seem to concatenate. I got binary files here: yvaine:disk rilindo$ ls -lah total 61440 drwxr-xr-x 4 rilindo staff 136B Apr 20 19:47 . drwxr-xr-x 10 rilindo staff 340B Apr 20 19:45 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 rilindo staff20M Apr 20 20:00 disk1 -rw-r--r-- 1 rilindo staff10M Apr