fileinput module doesn't work to spec?

[Carel Fellinger]

Dale Strickland-Clark <dale at out-think.nospamco.uk> wrote:
> According to the spec, the fileinput module should support overwriting

the specs are *always* right:), but keep a lot implicit:)


> table = []
> for line in fileinput.input(sys.argv[1:], inplace = 1):
> 	table = table + genRow(line)

printing in this loop will go to the file currently read

> print ''.join(table)

printing after the loop will again go to standard output.


-- 
groetjes, carel