How do you easily save over a .txt file?

[raubana]

What I'm trying to do is make a highscore system for a game I made (see one of my prev. posts). What it does is reads the file when it starts and saves when the program is shut down, but I found it really tricky because using
[CODE=python]
info = file("___.txt")
info.seek(0)

info.write(str( highscore))
[/CODE]
is very uneffective. This is because it just moves the text instead of writing over it.

Is it possable to make a huge string and just tell the file that's what it will now be, or how about removeing all the files strings so I can write in the new highscores?


OH! How about saving directly to the .py file, is that possable? If so, would it still work if I turned it into a .exe file?

[Laharl]

When you open a file in Python (use the open(filename, mode) function, rather than the file constructor), the second parameter is 'w', 'r', 'a', or any of those with a 'b' after. Respectively, they mean 'write', 'read', and 'append'. (The 'b' means binary mode). Write mode erases any existing text before you start reading, read mode is read-only, and append mode lets you write to the file from where the existing text ends.

[raubana]

I don't understand. When I tell it to write, it just moves the text.

[jlm699]

I don't understand. When I tell it to write, it just moves the text.

[code=python]
fh = open('somefile. txt', 'w') # This will erase the contents of the file and allow you to write
fh.write('This is some text in the file %s\n' % fh.name)
fh.close() # Closes the file handle

fh = open('somefile. txt', 'r') # This opens the file for reading
content = fh.read() # Reads all the contents of the file ...
fh.seek(0) # sets the cursor back to beginning of file
for line in fh: # This iterates through each line of the file
print line # Print the line

fh.close() # Closes the file handle[/code]

P.S. Mods/Admins: What happened to the python code tags? They don't work anymore! code=python just shows up as generic text! I don't know if you guys have noticed this or not but it bugs me!

[bvdet]

P.S. Mods/Admins: What happened to the python code tags? They don't work anymore! code=python just shows up as generic text! I don't know if you guys have noticed this or not but it bugs me!

I have noticed it, and it bugs me too!

[raubana]

Not you too! So I'm not the only one...

Anyway, here's the code (it's a zip file)
It has all the stuff so you can look at the code, and it also has a before and after save versions of highscores.ads (the extention hides the fact it's really a text file). Tell me what you can do to help, please! ; )

Okay...for some reason it won't upload the file... Hold on.

[raubana]

Here it is:

Adsector

[jlm699]

After you read in the information save it to a variable and close your file handle with fh.close()

Then open the file once again but with the 'w' mode. Then simply write the information to file, clearing the previous contents.