File IO Issues, help :(

[Kevin K]

On Apr 29, 1:07 am, Kevin K <kkuh... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 29, 12:55 am, Peter Otten <__pete... at web.de> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Kevin K wrote:
> > > On Apr 29, 12:38 am, "Eric Wertman" <ewert... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> chuck in a jsfile.close().  The buffer isn't flushing with what you
> > >> are doing now.  jsfile.flush() might work... not sure.  Closing and
> > >> re-opening the file for sure will help though.
>
> > > Yeah sorry I forgot to include the close() in the quote but its there.
> > > In fact I moved it up a bit and still no luck heres the new code:
>
> > > jsfile = open("../timeline.js", "r+")
> > > jscontent = jsfile.readlines()
> > > jsfile.truncate()
>
> > > for line in jscontent:
> > > if re.search('var d =', line):
> > > line = "var d = \""+mint['1'].ascdate()+"\"\n"
> > > print line
> > > jsfile.write(line)
> > > jsfile.close()
>
> > > I tried this can got the same result...??
>
> > """
> > truncate(...)
> >     truncate([size]) -> None.  Truncate the file to at most size bytes.
>
> >     Size defaults to the current file position, as returned by tell().
> > """
>
> > After the readlines() call the current file position is at the end of the
> > file. Try jsfile.truncate(0).
>
> > Also note that readlines() reads the whole file into memory. For large files
> > it would therefore be better to write to a new file and rename it
> > afterwards.
>
> > Peter
>
> Thanks Peter that seemed to be most of the problem, however I now have
> a bunch of null characters in the file. Could it be an unwanted line
> in the list that im writing?
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin

Awesome that seems to work fine! Thanks a lot for your help guys!