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text documents as variables

text documents as variables, I'm attempting to assign numbers in a text document as a varible

valarauca	21 May, 2009 - 11:27 AM Post #1
New D.I.C Head Joined: 20 May, 2009 Posts: 1	My issue is I have information in a text document (I want to keep it there for its abilitiy to be changed), But for the inforamation to be any use i need to assign it as a varrible. here is what i got so far: CODE a = open('c:\qoo\a.txt', 'r') a.seek(5) a.read(3) This gives me what i want, now how do i get it into a varible?
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girasquid	RE: Text Documents As Variables 21 May, 2009 - 11:42 AM Post #2
Barbarbar Joined: 3 Oct, 2006 Posts: 1,628 Thanked: 53 times Dream Kudos: 825 My Contributions	Which line gives you want you want? If the value returned by seek(), does, it's trivial to store it: python foo = a.seek(5) bar = a.seek(3)
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n00bc0der	RE: Text Documents As Variables 5 Jun, 2009 - 04:41 AM Post #3
D.I.C Head Joined: 27 Nov, 2008 Posts: 62 Thanked: 3 times My Contributions	I'd recommend opening the file, reading it to an array, changing the array in the ways it needs to be, and then writing the array to a file. This seems like the easiest way to do it. Chris
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