I’ve read here that editing a file in-place is not possible since it’s OS related and entirely independent of language. Why is that? Doesn’t the C standard fseek() define an in-place file write?
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I’ve read here that editing a file in-place is not possible since it’s OS related and entirely independent of language. Why is that? Doesn’t the C standard fseek() define an in-place file write?
You can seek in Python as well – the answer you linked is just pointing that you can’t insert in the middle of a file (
ABC->ABXC).If you seek and then write, whatever data is written overwrites the contents at that position of the file (
ABC->AXC).