using marshal module

[Gordon McMillan]

Christine Davis writes:
> 
> I am new to python (but old(er) to C++);  and trying to get a script to
> work.  What it is meant to do, is reads in a file,  config.db and then
> changes the values of one of the fields, and write the revised contents
> back.  if I call dump(<array where file contents loaded to>, <name of file
> pointer>) no change seems to take place.  (The field isn't changed,  nor
> does the field get concatenated at the end.
> 
> I have this feeling I may be missing out something important, but silly.

You got that right <wink>. By leaving out the mode, you are 
opening the file for read access. Just like in C, you probably 
want "r+b" and a seek(0), or two files.
 

> Here is the piece of broken code:
> 
> # open the file
> fp = open(filename)
> datastuff = marshal.load(fp)
> 
> # change the field
> datastuff['field'] = 'new string of stuff'
> 
> # "write it back to the file"
> # also tried "marshal.dump(datastuff, fp)" which didn't work either
> marshal.dump(datastuff['field'], fp)
> 
> # close the file
> fp.close()
> 
> 
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- Gordon