sudhir prasad wrote:
hi,
how to clear contents of a file with out actually deleting it,
basically wat im trying to do is copy a source file into a common
file ,run the common file,after that i need to copy another source
file into the common file,i ant to clear the contents of the common
file before copying contents into it.how does f.truncate() helps here
thanks,
sudheer
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You can just open the file again in write mode which will truncate it
for you.
So, f = open(filename, 'w') will clear the contents of your filename
(don't forget to close the file when you're done if you do this though).
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