[New-bugs-announce] [issue28714] Addition to Documentation of configparser.ConfigParser.write() documentaion

[George Fischhof]

New submission from George Fischhof:

Hi There, 

I used configparser.ConfigParser.write() to update a config file.
And I found that my config wa duplicated.

The file was opened with mode 'r+' 
I figured out that write (I mean the write method of configparser) writes at actual file position.

I issued a file.seek(0) command before write and the result was good.


So I think documentaion should advice to user to reopen the file with mode 'w' or to issue a file.seek(0) command before using the ConfigParser.write()


I used the following python version on windows:
Python 3.5.1 (v3.5.1:37a07cee5969, Dec  6 2015, 01:38:48) [MSC v.1900 32 bit (Intel)] on win32

affected documentation:
https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/configparser.html#configparser.ConfigParser.write

Best Regards,
George Fischhof

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 280960
nosy: docs at python, georgefischhof
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Addition to Documentation of configparser.ConfigParser.write() documentaion
versions: Python 3.5

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