Modifying a row in a textfile

[Jorgen Grahn]

On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:21:59 +0200, Diez B. Roggisch <deets at nospam.web.de> wrote:
> Olli Virta wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>> 
>> I got a textfile made out of database records. Is there an easy way to
>> modify rows in that file in case you have to take away some items here
>> and there from each rows.
>
> for line in inf.readlines():
>     if matches_criteria(line):
>        line = modify_line(line)
>     outf.write(line)

In other words, no. You need to put the results in another file.

/Jorgen

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