Writing at the beginning of a file

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-09-14, Thierry Lam <lamthierry at gmail.com> wrote:
> Let's say I already wrote a file and have the following:
>
> testing
> testing testing
> testing testing testing
>
> Is there an easy way to write something of variable length at the top
> of the file?

No.

[...]

> The other way to do what I want is to write the whole thing to a new
> file, but I want to skip that method if there's an alternative way.

There isn't.

> Another way of doing it is to buffer the whole file writing into some
> variable, but that means I have to change 2000+ lines of codes and
> change fp.write() to something else.
>
> Any suggestions please?

Looks like you've figured it out already.

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