Re: [Tutor] OT: Searching Tutor Archives

2015-08-19 Thread Ken G.
On 08/19/2015 07:34 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: On 19/08/15 18:43, Ken G. wrote: explain how to found such an article or kindly refresh my memory on how to correct an original file without using a secondary file. Thanks. Others have explained the search. Let me just point out that the number of c

Re: [Tutor] OT: Searching Tutor Archives

2015-08-19 Thread Alan Gauld
On 19/08/15 18:43, Ken G. wrote: explain how to found such an article or kindly refresh my memory on how to correct an original file without using a secondary file. Thanks. Others have explained the search. Let me just point out that the number of cases where you want to do such a thing is van

Re: [Tutor] OT: Searching Tutor Archives

2015-08-19 Thread Ken G.
On 08/19/2015 06:09 PM, Ben Finney wrote: "Ken G." writes: Could someone explain how to found such an article At the end of every message to this forum you'll see this footer: ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subs

Re: [Tutor] OT: Searching Tutor Archives

2015-08-19 Thread Ben Finney
"Ken G." writes: > Could someone explain how to found such an article At the end of every message to this forum you'll see this footer: > ___ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.

[Tutor] OT: Searching Tutor Archives

2015-08-19 Thread Ken G.
While searching in Google several months ago, I came across a response addressed to me regarding on how to read, correct and write to the same file at the same time without using a secondary file as a temporary file to hold the corrected entries and rewriting to the original file. The entry wa