write() at beginning of file?

Question

I\'m doing it like this now, but I want it to write at the beginning of the file instead.

f = open(\'out.txt\', \'a\') # or \'w\'?
f.write(\"string 1\")
f.wr         


        

Answer 1

Take a look at this question. There are some solutions there.

Though I would probably go that same way Daniel and MAK suggest -- maybe make a lil' class to make things a little more flexible and explicit:

class Prepender:

    def __init__(self, fname, mode='w'):
        self.__write_queue = []
        self.__f = open(fname, mode)

    def write(self, s):
        self.__write_queue.insert(0, s)

    def close(self):
        self.__exit__(None, None, None)

    def __enter__(self):
        return self

    def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback):
        if self.__write_queue: 
            self.__f.writelines(self.__write_queue)
        self.__f.close()

with Prepender('test_d.out') as f:
    f.write('string 1\n')
    f.write('string 2\n')
    f.write('string 3\n')