- show how to use file.write() with a non-string value

(closes SF bug #621057)
- add missing whitespace around assignment operator
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Fred Drake 2004-11-02 18:24:26 +00:00
parent 22b3b47e23
commit e808c2341b
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@ -3157,6 +3157,15 @@ the file, returning \code{None}.
>>> f.write('This is a test\n')
\end{verbatim}
To write something other than a string, it needs to be converted to a
string first:
\begin{verbatim}
>>> value = ('the answer', 42)
>>> s = str(value)
>>> f.write(s)
\end{verbatim}
\code{f.tell()} returns an integer giving the file object's current
position in the file, measured in bytes from the beginning of the
file. To change the file object's position, use
@ -3169,7 +3178,7 @@ reference point. \var{from_what} can be omitted and defaults to 0,
using the beginning of the file as the reference point.
\begin{verbatim}
>>> f=open('/tmp/workfile', 'r+')
>>> f = open('/tmp/workfile', 'r+')
>>> f.write('0123456789abcdef')
>>> f.seek(5) # Go to the 6th byte in the file
>>> f.read(1)