Pythonic way to overwrite a file

[Rhodri James]

Top-posting, tsk, tsk.

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:26:07 +0100, Cameron Pulsford  
<cameron.pulsford at gmail.com> wrote:

> Essentially it just cleans up a source file of erroneous spaces and tabs  
> and
> can also convert tabs to spaces so loading the whole file into memory is
> possibly an option. I am making this utility for personal use, and that
> would definitely be fine,
[snip]

You won't say that the first time it screws up and destroys one of your
files.  Making in-place changes is something that should set big red
lights flashing in software engineering terms.  You don't want to get
into the habit of doing that, especially for personal use.

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Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses