Bob Gailer wrote:
>At 08:09 AM 8/22/2005, Byron wrote:
>
>
>>Hi Johan,
>>
>>It's actually fairly simply and straight forward... Here's how to do
>>it: (I haven't officially tested this code for bugs, but I believe it
>>is correct.)
>>
>>file = open("datafile.txt", "r")
>>
>>
>
>This is an example of rebinding to a name originally bound to a builtin
>function.
>In other words, file is a builtin function; assigning to file makes the
>builtin inaccessible.
>So it is a good idea to avoid such assignments.
>
>
>
>>filedata = file.read()
>>file.close()
>>
>>newLine = "Your new line of data with the time stamp goes here.\n" +
>>filedata
>>file = open("datafile.txt", "w")
>>file.write(newLine)
>>file.close()
>>
>>
>
>or if you like terseness:
>newText = newLine + open("datafile.txt", "r").read()
>open("datafile.txt", "w").write(newText )
>
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Oops. Please ignore previous email. I didn't notice the statement where
you added filedata to newLine.
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