On Apr 29, 12:55 am, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin K wrote: > > On Apr 29, 12:38 am, "Eric Wertman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> chuck in a jsfile.close(). The buffer isn't flushing with what you > >> are doing now. jsfile.flush() might work... not sure. Closing and > >> re-opening the file for sure will help though. > > > Yeah sorry I forgot to include the close() in the quote but its there. > > In fact I moved it up a bit and still no luck heres the new code: > > > jsfile = open("../timeline.js", "r+") > > jscontent = jsfile.readlines() > > jsfile.truncate() > > > for line in jscontent: > > if re.search('var d =', line): > > line = "var d = \""+mint['1'].ascdate()+"\"\n" > > print line > > jsfile.write(line) > > jsfile.close() > > > I tried this can got the same result...?? > > """ > truncate(...) > truncate([size]) -> None. Truncate the file to at most size bytes. > > Size defaults to the current file position, as returned by tell(). > """ > > After the readlines() call the current file position is at the end of the > file. Try jsfile.truncate(0). > > Also note that readlines() reads the whole file into memory. For large files > it would therefore be better to write to a new file and rename it > afterwards. > > Peter
Thanks Peter that seemed to be most of the problem, however I now have a bunch of null characters in the file. Could it be an unwanted line in the list that im writing? Thanks, Kevin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list