[Tutor] Adding Text to the Beginning of a File

[Jeff Shannon]

Alan Colburn wrote:

> Hi all --
>
> Can anyone offer me a suggestion for how to add text
> to the beginning of a file? I know that file.seek(0)
> takes me to the beginning of the file, but
> file.write() ultimately still adds new strings to the
> end of the file. (The file is opened in a+ mode...)


Even if you did get write() to start writing at the beginning of the 
file, it would (as I understand it) simply overwrite the existing data.

AFAIK, the only good way to add text to the beginning of a file is to 
read the entire file in, make modifications to the text in-memory, and 
then write the entire file out again (presumably to the same filename).

Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International