[Tutor] Need help appending data to a logfile

Dave Angel davea at davea.name
Fri Jun 28 13:37:54 CEST 2013


On 06/28/2013 07:27 AM, Matt D wrote:
>
>>
>> As for the shutil.copy() function, how complex can it be?  It takes two
>> file names, source and destination.  It does not need a with statement
>> since it wants strings, not file handles.
>>
>> You might get into trouble on some OS's with the source file already
>> open, but since you open it with append, it should be trivial to close
>> and reopen it.
>>
>>
> The problem here is that the, I am pretty sure that, using anything from
> shutil overwrite what is currently in the 'dst' file.  So if I am
> starting and stopping the program, that file is going to lose
> everything.  There has to be a way around this.


And that's exactly what Save-As is supposed to do.  If you want 
something different, you might have said so.


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DaveA


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