How to overwrite some bytes in the middle of a file with Python?
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Solution 1
Try this:
fh = open("filename.ext", "r+b")
fh.seek(offset)
fh.write(bytes)
fh.close()
Solution 2
According to this python page you can type file.seek to seek to a particualar offset. You can then write whatever you want.
To avoid truncating the file, you can open it with "a+" then seek to the right offset.
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sebastien
Updated on July 09, 2022Comments
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sebastien almost 2 years
I'd like to be able to overwrite some bytes at a given offset in a file using Python.
My attempts have failed miserably and resulted in:
- overwriting the bytes at the offset but also truncating the file just after (file mode = "w" or "w+")
- appending the bytes at the end of the file (file mode = "a" or "a+")
Is it possible to achieve this with Python in a portable way?